Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754799AbZGHLUS (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jul 2009 07:20:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753404AbZGHLUI (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jul 2009 07:20:08 -0400 Received: from mail-gx0-f226.google.com ([209.85.217.226]:33606 "EHLO mail-gx0-f226.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752346AbZGHLUF (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jul 2009 07:20:05 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=hSFOoUOoYICTi3JqCgvPG5YMWoDfQYzonJ3Ho8XiokDrC8lexN8IvqZOceV6Q/loum C+9eITqvZWxxBtVOqgj8YRjlkfdjPgxzPxVMFNmsvPd12II859Wk7gvbIIX1wTr607hG shNjl6mVo76AMGoTXzVdZswzqV6YW+Bx6T7vk= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <20090623144221.GA29593@suse.de> <20090623153928.GA32604@suse.de> <21d7e9970907080354h6949b27va40fb830f612287@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 21:20:04 +1000 Message-ID: <21d7e9970907080420h41375e36q1efacb9f3555b9de@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: can we move USB_DEVICEFS to non-embedded? From: Dave Airlie To: Kay Sievers Cc: Greg KH , Jeff Chua , Linux Kernel , Linus Torvalds , Scott James Remnant , Dave Jones , Peter Jones Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 942 Lines: 21 On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Kay Sievers wrote: > On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 12:54, Dave Airlie wrote: > >> Okay can we revert this for a better reason? it seems to have unhidden a race >> condition on booting some of my machines. I've booted some other machines >> with the same USB disk and the same kernel fine. > > Are you sure? USBFS is for userspace USB drivers, booting from > usb-storage devices should be fully handled by the kernel. > Yes, changing just this option means the difference between a bootable and stuck in initrd system. maybe Peter knows if our initrd does something otherwise I suspect we have a race that usbfs was hiding. Dave. -- 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/