On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 21:20 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: > On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Kay Sievers wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 12:54, Dave Airlie wrote: > > > >> Okay can we revert this for a better reason? it seems to have unhidden a race > >> condition on booting some of my machines. I've booted some other machines > >> with the same USB disk and the same kernel fine. > > > > Are you sure? USBFS is for userspace USB drivers, booting from > > usb-storage devices should be fully handled by the kernel. > > > > Yes, changing just this option means the difference between a bootable > and stuck in initrd system. maybe Peter knows if our initrd does something > otherwise I suspect we have a race that usbfs was hiding. > I assume you're not using libusual or anything like that? We had a race caused by libusual calling modprobe before we'd generated modules.dep Scott -- Scott James Remnant scott@ubuntu.com