From: Matthew Dharm <mdharm-kernel@one-eyed-alien.net>
To: Gabor Gombas <gombasg@sztaki.hu>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>,
Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
Pekka J Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dsd@gentoo.org,
linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, vegardno@ifi.uio.no,
James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] usb-storage: wait for device scanning before mounting root
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:14:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080620141445.GA16839@one-eyed-alien.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080620095311.GK15159@boogie.lpds.sztaki.hu>
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On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 11:53:11AM +0200, Gabor Gombas wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 04:13:25PM -0700, David Brownell wrote:
>
> > Why give up, ever?
>
> It would be quite useful to time out and reboot using the previous
> kernel ("lilo -R") when one wants to figure out remotely why the new
> kernel does not boot.
And thus we arrive at only one conclusion: You should do this with an
initrd so that any policy that is desired can be implemented. No matter
what the kernel does by default, it will be incorrect for some scenarios.
Matt
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-20 14:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-24 20:21 Pekka J Enberg
2008-04-24 21:08 ` Alan Stern
2008-04-24 21:25 ` Pekka J Enberg
2008-04-24 22:56 ` Greg KH
2008-04-24 23:30 ` Matthew Dharm
2008-04-25 6:30 ` Pekka J Enberg
2008-04-25 7:04 ` Matthew Dharm
2008-04-25 8:19 ` Pekka J Enberg
2008-04-25 15:35 ` Matthew Dharm
2008-04-25 16:05 ` Greg KH
2008-04-25 6:09 ` Pekka J Enberg
2008-04-25 7:53 ` Stefan Richter
2008-04-25 8:15 ` Pekka J Enberg
2008-04-25 9:11 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-06-19 18:23 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-06-19 18:39 ` Stefan Richter
2008-06-19 18:43 ` Stefan Richter
2008-06-19 18:54 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-06-19 19:52 ` Matthew Dharm
2008-06-19 20:49 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-06-19 21:19 ` Stefan Richter
2008-06-19 19:54 ` Stefan Richter
2008-06-19 20:22 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-06-19 20:34 ` Stefan Richter
2008-06-19 21:39 ` Alan Stern
2008-06-19 23:13 ` David Brownell
2008-06-20 9:53 ` Gabor Gombas
2008-06-20 14:14 ` Matthew Dharm [this message]
2008-06-20 15:15 ` Vegard Nossum
2008-06-20 15:31 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-06-20 15:42 ` Alan Stern
2008-06-20 16:37 ` Stefan Richter
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