(Adds lots of cc's. I trust that's OK). Jon Smirl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No, I think Jens wants all of the distributions to fix it. I have > filed a bug with Fedora on it. > > Something changed in the timing for loading drivers during boot. You > used to be able to do: > modprobe ata_piix > mount /dev/sda1 > > Now you have to do this: > modprobe ata_piix > sleep 1 > mount /dev/sda1 > > I suspect the problem is that udev doesn't get a chance to run anymore. > The sleep 1 allows it to run and it creates /dev/sda1. > Build ata_piix in and the problem goes away too. > > 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. - 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/
