Re: [PATCH] Fix for USB media not found at boot

On Saturday 03 October 2009 17:05:35 Scott Long wrote:
> On Oct 3, 2009, at 4:30 AM, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> > On Saturday 03 October 2009 10:19:57 Scott Long wrote:
> >> config_intrhook system will sleep after all
> >
> > Then why do you need the intr hook callback?
>
> The config_intrhook lets you know that interrupts are enabled, the
> scheduler is running, and mountroot hasn't run yet.  It provides a
> very convenient and standard way to do exactly what we want with USB
> enumeration.

Hi,

The root HUB attach and explore code is already running from a separate 
thread, so won't that be superfluous? I mean, the HUB explore code for any USB 
HUB will not run until the scheduler is running anyway.

In my opinion delaying the system until the boot disk is present is just not 
good. We should rather be event driven, so that every time a new disk becomes 
present it checks it for mountroot.

while (1) {
       if (mountroot is successful)
           break;
       if (ctrl+c is pressed)
           manual_mountroot();
       printf("Waiting 1 second for root-disk to appear. Press CTRL+C to 
abort.\n");
	   sleep(1);
}

--HPS