Pierre Ossman <[email protected]> writes:
>
> If the device never shows up than we will hang in an infinite loop.
> Previously we panic:ed instead, so this behaviour should be no
> worse.
Actually that's not correct. With panic=30 and lilo -R and a working
backup kernel a system can recover from this. With your endless loop it can't.
Always add some kind of timeout.
-Andi
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