linux-kernel - Re: [patch] drivers: wait for threaded probes between initcall levels

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Date:	Fri, 27 Oct 2006 23:59:30 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Cc:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...l.org>,
	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-pci@...ey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz
Subject: Re: [patch] drivers: wait for threaded probes between initcall
	levels

Ar Gwe, 2006-10-27 am 11:42 -0700, ysgrifennodd Andrew Morton:
> IOW, we want to be multithreaded _within_ an initcall level, but not between
> different levels.

Thats actually insufficient. We have link ordered init sequences in
large numbers of driver subtrees (ATA, watchdog, etc). We'll need
several more initcall layers to fix that.

Alan

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