On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 21:48 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

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+           msleep_interruptible(ms);
+           if (ms < 60000)
+                   ms <<= 1;

Is this timeout only for the disk spinup, or also for detecting

media

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added at run time, like inserting a DVD? One minute timeout for
detecting a DVD would sound very long to me.

It's not for inserting DVDs, only for new devices showing up in the
repository.
Apparently new devices may keep on showing up a while after boot up,
but I
think this matters only for the kboot kernel, that's why I went with
the
exponential back-off with upper limit.

Why not just have a kthread poll at 2 second interval for new devices or
removed ones ?

(And not for request processing)

Ben.