Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757750AbYFTOPb (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:15:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751531AbYFTOPU (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:15:20 -0400 Received: from adsl-67-113-118-6.dsl.sndg02.pacbell.net ([67.113.118.6]:36341 "EHLO multivac.one-eyed-alien.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754326AbYFTOPS (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:15:18 -0400 Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:14:45 -0700 From: Matthew Dharm To: Gabor Gombas Cc: David Brownell , Alan Stern , Matthew Wilcox , Pekka J Enberg , Stefan Richter , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dsd@gentoo.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, vegardno@ifi.uio.no, James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Greg KH Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] usb-storage: wait for device scanning before mounting root Message-ID: <20080620141445.GA16839@one-eyed-alien.net> Mail-Followup-To: Gabor Gombas , David Brownell , Alan Stern , Matthew Wilcox , Pekka J Enberg , Stefan Richter , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dsd@gentoo.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, vegardno@ifi.uio.no, James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Greg KH References: <200806191613.25552.david-b@pacbell.net> <20080620095311.GK15159@boogie.lpds.sztaki.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="pWyiEgJYm5f9v55/" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080620095311.GK15159@boogie.lpds.sztaki.hu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Organization: One Eyed Alien Networks X-Copyright: (C) 2008 Matthew Dharm, all rights reserved. X-Message-Flag: Get a real e-mail client. http://www.mutt.org/ X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.1.12 (multivac.one-eyed-alien.net [127.0.0.1]); Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:14:47 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1432 Lines: 48 --pWyiEgJYm5f9v55/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 11:53:11AM +0200, Gabor Gombas wrote: > On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 04:13:25PM -0700, David Brownell wrote: >=20 > > Why give up, ever?=20 >=20 > It would be quite useful to time out and reboot using the previous > kernel ("lilo -R") when one wants to figure out remotely why the new > kernel does not boot. And thus we arrive at only one conclusion: You should do this with an initrd so that any policy that is desired can be implemented. No matter what the kernel does by default, it will be incorrect for some scenarios. Matt --=20 Matthew Dharm Home: mdharm-usb@one-eyed-alien.= net=20 Maintainer, Linux USB Mass Storage Driver It was a new hope. -- Dust Puppy User Friendly, 12/25/1998 --pWyiEgJYm5f9v55/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIW7tVHL9iwnUZqnkRAsRGAJ9RnexoqKsfNBqW/WbGKwk5fm/TCwCdGlAV bbvn4PaFBrXngbqa9zAiO5A= =1bl4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --pWyiEgJYm5f9v55/-- -- 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/