Re: waiting 10s before mounting root filesystem?

[Andrew Morton]

Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 01:49:05AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > William Park <opengeometry@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > -		printk("VFS: Cannot open root device \"%s\" or %s\n",
> > >  -				root_device_name, b);
> > >  -		printk("Please append a correct \"root=\" boot option\n");
> > >  +		if (--tryagain) {
> > >  +		    printk (KERN_WARNING "VFS: Waiting %dsec for root device...\n", tryagain);
> > >  +		    ssleep (1);
> > >  +		    goto retry;
> > >  +		}
> > >  +		printk (KERN_CRIT "VFS: Cannot open root device \"%s\" or %s\n", root_device_name, b);
> > >  +		printk (KERN_CRIT "Please append a correct \"root=\" boot option\n");
> > 
> > Why is this patch needed?  If it is to offer the user a chance to insert
> > the correct medium or to connect the correct device, 
> 
> The media may take a while to become readable (think of CDROM).
> 

But the device driver should wait while the media spins up.  If it doesn't,
the kernel would get I/O errors all over the place in normal operation.

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