Kernel probe order issues

[Andriy Gapon]

on 02/02/2010 08:36 Peter Jeremy said the following:
> On 2010-Feb-01 11:37:33 +0200, Andriy Gapon <avg at icyb.net.ua> wrote:
>>> This strikes me as undesirable.  Is there some way to bump up the
>>> probe/attach priority of console input devices to ensure that they
>>> exist before the kernel tries to read input?
>> It seems to be a problem with either your keyboard or your USB controller.
>> USB keyboard can be discovered much earlier than mountroot if the hardware is
>> ready.  No magical software priority bump can help here.
> 
> I've tried a couple of different USB ports (controllers) with no
> change in behaviour.  I'll try another keyboard if I can find one.  It
> _does_ work as expected on 7.x so this is a regression.

Unfortunately you keep being low on hardware details.
For me going from stable/7 to stable/8 resulted in an improvement of the
opposite nature on two different systems: now my keyboard is detected before
disks are detected, whereas previously it was detected some time later.


-- 
Andriy Gapon