William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca> writes:

> > > > was wondering if there were any interest in my own efforts in that
> > > > direction:
> > 
> > > > http://dedasys.com/freesoftware/patches/blkdev_wakeup.patch which

...

> > Thanks!  I don't wish to be a pest, but not having heard a "no",
> > I'll send another ping out.  Perhaps a simple description is
> > better than the patch for busy people:

> >     In init/do_mounts.c, mount_root does an interruptible_sleep_on
> >     a wait queue, and goes on about its business after
> >     register_blkdev in drivers/block/genhd.c does a
> >     wake_up_interruptible on it, so that mounting the root device
> >     happens exactly when it needs to, no sooner, no later, and
> >     doesn't depend on any fiddly timing issues.

> Post your patch to the list, and I'll get it from a newsgroup.

I sent the URL to the patch so as to avoid sending it around, but
since I don't know the etiquette of this list, I will attach the patch
for your perusal.

Thankyou once again,
-- 
David N. Welton
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