Bug#401916: Bug #401916 - any progress?

[maximilian attems <maks@sternwelten.at>]

On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 01:46:08PM +0100, David Härdeman wrote:
> On Fri, February 23, 2007 12:11, maximilian attems said:
> > On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, David Härdeman wrote:
<snipp> 
> > mika's case is general enough, it affects lilo on almost any
> > root beside ide and quick sata controller
> > and grub for lvm2, evms and mdadm on those too.
> 
> Sorry, I don't follow, what does lilo and grub have to do with waiting in
> the initramfs for the root blockdev to appear? Was that a reference to bug
>  409820?

for grub we can wait for the root dev to appear,
for lilo we create it by hand, so it's always there
and you fall into the rescue shell for async root drivers.

so this is the topic of this particular bug and afaik
the grml-2hd test case is precisely done on an usb stick
with lilo bootloader.
 
> > all the other distribution add some bandaid aka stupid sleep
> > for the case of usb, ..
> > and for a quick glance over those initramfs generators
> > this would be done on mkinitramfs time.
> > right?
> 
> Yes, initramfs-based fixed sleep for a couple of seconds (which may still
> break in some scenarios) or a hardcoded root device (which allows the
> initramfs script to wait until that root device node appears) are the two
> solution I've seen from a quick survey.
> 
> I still think a user-configurable sleep (and/or a user configurable device
> node to wait for) would be the best option at this point followed by a
> more complete solution later.

yes the user configured sleep should override the stupid bandaid sleep.
and i would like that band aid sleep only for the known trouble
cases like usb-storage and ieee1394.
we don't have too _many_ complaints, so we aren't doing that badly.
 
> > sorry, really busy on a physics workshop so no code right now.
> > but happy about your ping!
> 
> Good luck with your workshop

thanks, pretty intersting but lots of work..
 
> > salutations amicales
> 
> Med vänliga hälsningar.

zut babelfish lacks danish features.
switching back ;)

happy greetings
maks