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Message-Id: <1162205331.11965.0.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 10:48:51 +0000
From: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, 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 Llu, 2006-10-30 am 10:44 +0100, ysgrifennodd Cornelia Huck:
> Would it be sufficient just to make the busses wait until all their
> devices are through with their setup? This is what the ccw bus on s390
> does:
For ATA and IDE no, it might work with SCSI but your devices would
randomly re-order which is also obnoxious. IDE relies on both link probe
order and also has code that knows boot time processing is single
threaded.
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