Re: [PATCH] [MMC] Use own work queue

[Russell King]

On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 11:40:31AM +0200, pHilipp Zabel wrote:
> On 10/13/06, Russell King <rmk+lkml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >The problem is likely that the boot is continuing in parallel with
> >detecting the card, because the card detection is running in its own
> >separate thread.  Meanwhile, the init thread is trying to read from
> >the as-yet missing root device and erroring out.
> 
> Thanks, I can work around this by using the rootdelay kernel parameter.
> So does that mean this is the expected behavior, or should I do anything
> in the bootup sequence to make the init process wait for mmc detection?

That's up to Pierre now.  I originally ensured that the initial boot
time card detection was synchronous with the boot to avoid unexpected
problems like this.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core
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