diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 854ed5ca7e3f122f5ac808b462eb14b9ee6b1977..88a7b197a4eb538446fb04cfa718448dad90c0c2 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2240,6 +2240,10 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 			in <PAGE_SIZE> units (needed only for swap files).
 			See  Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
 
+	resumewait	[HIBERNATION] Wait (indefinitely) for resume device to show up.
+			Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously
+			(e.g. USB and MMC devices).
+
 	hibernate=	[HIBERNATION]
 		noresume	Don't check if there's a hibernation image
 				present during boot.
diff --git a/kernel/power/hibernate.c b/kernel/power/hibernate.c
index 7f44e5c269712a96c582f177df5152c19603e996..0f8785080cde7b75162b2d302cc179811172aaf4 100644
--- a/kernel/power/hibernate.c
+++ b/kernel/power/hibernate.c
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 #include <linux/reboot.h>
 #include <linux/string.h>
 #include <linux/device.h>
+#include <linux/async.h>
 #include <linux/kmod.h>
 #include <linux/delay.h>
 #include <linux/fs.h>
@@ -31,6 +32,7 @@
 
 static int nocompress = 0;
 static int noresume = 0;
+static int resume_wait = 0;
 static char resume_file[256] = CONFIG_PM_STD_PARTITION;
 dev_t swsusp_resume_device;
 sector_t swsusp_resume_block;
@@ -736,6 +738,13 @@ static int software_resume(void)
 		 * to wait for this to finish.
 		 */
 		wait_for_device_probe();
+
+		if (resume_wait) {
+			while ((swsusp_resume_device = name_to_dev_t(resume_file)) == 0)
+				msleep(10);
+			async_synchronize_full();
+		}
+
 		/*
 		 * We can't depend on SCSI devices being available after loading
 		 * one of their modules until scsi_complete_async_scans() is
@@ -1064,7 +1073,14 @@ static int __init noresume_setup(char *str)
 	return 1;
 }
 
+static int __init resumewait_setup(char *str)
+{
+	resume_wait = 1;
+	return 1;
+}
+
 __setup("noresume", noresume_setup);
 __setup("resume_offset=", resume_offset_setup);
 __setup("resume=", resume_setup);
 __setup("hibernate=", hibernate_setup);
+__setup("resumewait", resumewait_setup);