[OE-core] [PATCH v2] initrd: add recovery feature

[Otavio Salvador]

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 8:19 AM, Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:

> On 14 November 2012 19:39, Radu Moisan <radu.moisan at intel.com> wrote:
> > Well, I didn't see any side effects. If there are side effects I'll
> remove
> > the timeout but please point out to me some of those. Anyway, I thought
> > about this more like a safety net because I've noticed "settle" has some
> > history with hanging the system boot more that it should in some
> > circumstances.
>
> Your average Intel, qemu, or fast ARM test hardware can easily settle
> in under three seconds.  The problem is when you have either slow
> hardware, or hardware with lots of storage devices to enumerate.
>

Radu, please drop it or set it for 20s or so. I am against the timeout as a
whole as in case this causes a boot fail it will be quite difficult to
average user to come up to realize the cause of the problem so my opinion
would be to drop it completely.

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Otavio Salvador                             O.S. Systems
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