From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1767796AbXDFPvh (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Apr 2007 11:51:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1767794AbXDFPvg (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Apr 2007 11:51:36 -0400 Received: from hancock.steeleye.com ([71.30.118.248]:50841 "EHLO hancock.sc.steeleye.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932975AbXDFPvf (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Apr 2007 11:51:35 -0400 Subject: Re: CONFIG_SCSI_WAIT_SCAN=m From: James Bottomley To: Hugh Dickins Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi , Matthew Wilcox In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 10:51:10 -0500 Message-Id: <1175874670.3677.14.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.3 (2.8.3-2.fc6) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sorry, was waiting for a reply on this one ... didn't realise it hadn't cc'd linux-scsi ... James On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 17:25 +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote: > I'm not using an initrd, most of my kernel is builtin, > just a few modules for occasional filesystems. > > CONFIG_MODULES=y > CONFIG_SCSI=y > CONFIG_SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC=y > CONFIG_SCSI_WAIT_SCAN=m > > 2.6.21-rc5-mm2 VFS panics unable to find my root on /dev/sda2, > but boots okay if I change drivers/scsi/Kconfig to "default y" > instead of "default m" for SCSI_WAIT_SCAN. > > I'm sure that's not the right fix, but I don't know what is. > > I've had no trouble with SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC=y until now: I could > turn it off, but others may have trouble with the same regression. > > Hugh