Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755385AbZDPDH0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:07:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754546AbZDPDGx (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:06:53 -0400 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:52782 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754350AbZDPDGw (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:06:52 -0400 Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:54:08 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Mark Lord Cc: Arjan van de Ven , Jeff Garzik , Linux USB kernel mailing list , Alan Stern , LKML , "Rafael J. Wysocki" Subject: Re: USB storage no-boot regression (bisected) Message-ID: <20090416025408.GE4806@kroah.com> References: <20090415014930.GA29413@kroah.com> <49E5480F.10501@garzik.org> <20090415050947.GB3462@kroah.com> <49E5EE41.3090505@rtr.ca> <20090415073001.503b0361@infradead.org> <49E5FF48.3030809@rtr.ca> <20090415125813.34c9a151@infradead.org> <49E657BC.6000707@rtr.ca> <20090415183213.7962d929@infradead.org> <49E6948E.3040901@rtr.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49E6948E.3040901@rtr.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 973 Lines: 28 On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 10:14:38PM -0400, Mark Lord wrote: > Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:55:08 -0400 > .. > >> No, that's not the same thing. > >> rootwait has no timeout -- it waits *forever*, > >> which will break auto-recovery on servers. > > > > btw while I don't disagree that something like this is nice... > > > > .... who would boot their server from a USB stick for production use? > .. > > At least one MAJOR storage vendor that I know of. > Probably more. > > Though it's an onboard USB SSD, not a pluggable stick. Wow, that's insane. Leave it to a hardware designer to use a bus that you never know if you have discovered all the devices to be the primary device to boot from. greg k-h -- 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/