linux-kernel - Re: Please revert 5adc55da4a7758021bcc374904b0f8b076508a11 (PCI_MULTITHREAD

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Message-ID: <20070509191435.695765ce@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>
Date:	Wed, 9 May 2007 19:14:35 +0200
From:	Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>
To:	david@...g.hm
Cc:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Please revert 5adc55da4a7758021bcc374904b0f8b076508a11
 (PCI_MULTITHREAD_PROBE)

On Wed, 9 May 2007 09:50:09 -0700 (PDT),
david@...g.hm wrote:

> On Wed, 9 May 2007, Greg KH wrote:

> > Why is it dead?  Since when is PCI the only bus in the system?
> 
> correct, while this discussion started over the PCI_MULTITHREAD_PROBE it's 
> focusing on the generic problem that would apply to any bus

s/multithreaded/async/ (more generic and better describing what we
want imo) That's why I said the multithreaded approach was dead (sorry
if that was confusing).

> I don't think anyone is saying that PCI is the problem here. We're trying 
> to identify what needs to be done for any arbatrary bus, if a particular 
> bus doesn't need to split it's initialization up becouse there are no 
> delays (and therefor no gains for multithreading) then drivers for that 
> bus don't bother to implement any async portion.

Exactly. A general idea/framework on how to do async probing would be
good.
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