Re: [PATCH] Configurable delay before mounting root device

2005-01-21 Thread William Park
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 08:55:54PM +, Daniel Drake wrote: > Adds a boot parameter which can be used to specify a delay (in seconds) > before the root device is decoded/discovered/mounted. > > Example usage for 10 second delay: > > rootdelay=10 > > Useful for usb-storage devices which

Re: [PATCH] Configurable delay before mounting root device

2005-01-21 Thread Daniel Drake
Andrew Morton wrote: You owe me an update to Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt ;) Adds a boot parameter which can be used to specify a delay (in seconds) before the root device is decoded/discovered/mounted. Example usage for 10 second delay: rootdelay=10 Useful for usb-storage devices whi

Re: [PATCH] Configurable delay before mounting root device

2005-01-20 Thread Andrew Morton
Daniel Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > + if (root_delay) { > +printk(KERN_INFO "Waiting %dsec before mounting root > device...\n", > + root_delay); > +ssleep(root_delay); > +} Totally sad, but it's hard to see how that could break anythin

[PATCH] Configurable delay before mounting root device

2005-01-20 Thread Daniel Drake
Adds a boot parameter which can be used to specify a delay (in seconds) before the root device is decoded/discovered/mounted. Example usage for 10 second delay: rootdelay=10 Useful for usb-storage devices which no longer make their partitions immediately available, and for other storage