Re: [PATCH] Retrying root mounting for booting off USB

From: Frank van Maarseveen
Date: Tue Aug 03 2004 - 15:07:06 EST


On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 10:33:04PM +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> Currently, booting off USB devices doesn't work in all environments. The
> root fs mounting code in init/do_mounts.c decides that the root filesystem
> is not available and gives up before the USB mass storage driver gets
> fully initialized.

what do you think of http://dedasys.com/freesoftware/patches/blkdev_wakeup.patch ?

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=109122295308836&w=2

--
Frank
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