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From: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Thomas_B=E4chler?= <thomas@archlinux.org>
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To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: fastboot/async and initramfs: How am I supposed to know when
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Arjan van de Ven schrieb:
>> Among other things, this loads the ata_piix on my machine. On older=20
>> kernels I could assume that after these commands, /dev/sda* existed
>=20
> not if you have CONFIG_SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC set though..
>=20
>> and I could immediately access them (in my case, I run cryptsetup on=20
>> /dev/sda6). But now, the devices don't exist here, but are only
>> created a second or so later. As a result, the initramfs script has
>> already bailed out as it couldn't find /dev/sda6 and assumed that the
>> hard drive didn't exist.
>=20
> the CONFIG_SCSI_WAIT_SCAN method (basically loading that module to wait=

> for the scans to finish) will work for you......

Thanks, I will integrate that into our initramfs. Will that also work=20
for USB mass storage (which was already problematic with older kernels,=20
you load the module you don't know how long it takes until the sdX=20
devices are created)?
Can I load that module before loading the actual SCSI/SATA/PATA driver?


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