On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 08:14:29PM -0500, Kyle Moffett wrote: > On Mar 21, 2005, at 19:19, Andrew Morton wrote: > >Jon Smirl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Jens is right that this is a user space issue, but how many people are > >>going to find this out the hard way when their root drives stop > >>mounting. Since no one is complaining I have to assume that most > >>kernel developers have their root device drivers built into the > >>kernel. I was loading mine as a module since for a long time Redhat > >>was not shipping kernels with SATA built in. > > > >I don't agree that this is a userspace issue. It's just not sane for a > >driver to be in an unusable state for an arbitrary length of time after > >modprobe returns. > > What about if I'm booting from a USB drive?
That's a different issue, as you stated. There are other patches floating around that address this. thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
