Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763223AbXERRJv (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 May 2007 13:09:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757398AbXERRJn (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 May 2007 13:09:43 -0400 Received: from 85.8.24.16.se.wasadata.net ([85.8.24.16]:45920 "EHLO smtp.drzeus.cx" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757364AbXERRJm (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 May 2007 13:09:42 -0400 Message-ID: <464DDDC1.5060008@drzeus.cx> Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 19:09:21 +0200 From: Pierre Ossman User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070419) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andi Kleen CC: LKML , Haavard Skinnemoen Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Make prepare_namespace() wait for devices References: <464853D9.70904@drzeus.cx> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 808 Lines: 27 Hi there brave visitor from the future ;) Andi Kleen wrote: > Actually that's not correct. With panic=30 and lilo -R and a working > backup kernel a system can recover from this. With your endless loop it can't. > > Always add some kind of timeout. > > Did you check the second version? Is that sufficient or is a timeout a must in your book? Rgds -- -- Pierre Ossman Linux kernel, MMC maintainer http://www.kernel.org PulseAudio, core developer http://pulseaudio.org rdesktop, core developer http://www.rdesktop.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/