On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 09:30:52AM +0300, Pekka J Enberg wrote:
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> On Thu, 24 Apr 2008, Matthew Dharm wrote:
> > This also has all sorts of races between do_mounts 'waiting' and the ac=
tual
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> > USB device enumeration.  It's entirely possible that the kernel loads v=
ia
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> > BIOS, the USB drivers are loaded, that forces devices to disconnect/res=
et,
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> > and they take a while to re-enumerate.  During that delay, the kernel g=
ets
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> > to do_mount; now, no devices show in this "waiting for scan" count.
>=20
> So how does that happen? ->storage_probe fails and driver core calls it=
=20
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> later at some point?

There's no guarantee that storage_probe is going to get called in a timely
manner.

Matt

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