Re: USB storage no-boot regression (bisected)

[Jeff Garzik]

Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> This change just made it go faster enough for you to be out of luck;
> fundamentally your userland needs to wait if the device it wants is not
> there. 

All these drivers are in-kernel, and the root device is passed via 
command line.  There is no userland at that point, that needs to wait.

If this change added an implicit initramfs requirement, that is a pretty 
major regression.

	Jeff



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