From: Randy Dunlap <rddunlap@osdl.org>
To: <der.eremit@email.de>
Cc: <spam99@2thebatcave.com>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: getting usb mass storage to finish before running init?
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 20:06:50 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2181.4.5.45.142.1076645210.squirrel@www.osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1ArSm1-0003ei-Pv@localhost>
> On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 03:00:21 +0100, you wrote in linux.kernel:
>
>> I can put a sleep in there but that is sloppy, and can not really be
>> relied apon (since technically there is no way I can know how long the
>> detection phase will take), and also I may be waisting time (which I
>> don't want to, I want a fast booting router).
>
> Check available devices for root filesystem (in case you're booting from
> IDE). If it's not there, wait a moment, then look for additional
> devices. If nothing shows up, repeat.
That's basically what my usb-boot patch for 2.4.22 does:
http://www.xenotime.net/linux/usb/usbboot-2422.patch
I haven't tried to port it to 2.6.x.
---
~Randy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-13 4:06 UTC|newest]
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2004-02-13 2:09 ` der.eremit
2004-02-13 2:34 ` Nick Bartos
2004-02-13 12:48 ` der.eremit
2004-02-13 12:56 ` Nick Bartos
2004-02-13 4:06 ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
2004-02-13 12:55 ` der.eremit
2004-02-13 1:54 Nick Bartos
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