Bug#844217: live-boot: immediately detect medium from live-media parameter
Hi,
On Sun, 13 Nov 2016, Ronny Standtke wrote:
> Package: live-boot
> Version: 1:20160511
> Severity: normal
>
> If a preferred medium (device or medium type) is given with the
> live-media parameter then waiting for the timeout to expire before
> scanning for these devices is not necessary. Just pick the device as soon
> as it appears. If a criterion would match several devices the outcome is
> undefined anyway. So choosing the first one is good enough.
Given the number of side-effects of "checkdev" I'm not convinced that this
change is justified and safe. Running checkdev on less devices because we
have found the good one before the end of the timeout is a change of
behaviour that I'd rather avoid.
If the timeout is annoying, why set it at all? The code should loop until
it finds the desired device.
Cheers,
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