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

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 05:15:43PM +0200, Vegard Nossum wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 11:39 PM, Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > As I recall, it died because the whole notion was very poorly defined
> > to begin with.  The idea was to stop waiting when all the SCSI buses
> > had been scanned -- but there's no way to know when that occurs because
> > new buses can be added at any time.
> 
> Can you please explain why this is?

The USB spec doesn't mandate a minimum time before devices come
available.  There's no way for the device to say "I'm here, I will be
providing USB Storage, but I'm not ready yet".  So we can't know when
we've enumerated all the USB devices on the system.


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