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SubjectRe: [RFC/PATCH] usb-storage: wait for device scanning before mounting root
Hi Matthew,

On Thu, 24 Apr 2008, Matthew Dharm wrote:
> > > This also has all sorts of races between do_mounts 'waiting' and the actual
> > > USB device enumeration. It's entirely possible that the kernel loads via
> > > BIOS, the USB drivers are loaded, that forces devices to disconnect/reset,
> > > and they take a while to re-enumerate. During that delay, the kernel gets
> > > to do_mount; now, no devices show in this "waiting for scan" count.

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 09:30:52AM +0300, Pekka J Enberg wrote:
> > So how does that happen? ->storage_probe fails and driver core calls it
> > later at some point?

On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, Matthew Dharm wrote:
> There's no guarantee that storage_probe is going to get called in a timely
> manner.

How can we add such a guarantee? Don't we have this problem with any other
storage devices?

Pekka


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