Re: [RFC/PATCH] usb-storage: wait for device scanning before mountingroot

[Alan Stern]

On Thu, 24 Apr 2008, Pekka J Enberg wrote:

> From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Add a new kernel config option CONFIG_LATE_ROOT_MOUNT that makes the kernel
> wait until background scanning of USB mass storage devices is complete before
> attempting to mount the root filesystem.
> 
> The config option is an alternative to the root_delay= kernel parameter
> solution people currently use to boot from USB mass storage devices.

This doesn't take into account what happens when CONFIG_SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC
is set.

Alan Stern


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