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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0707191411060.8661@pademelon.sonytel.be>
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 14:13:33 +0200 (CEST)
From: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@...ycom.com>
To: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>
cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>,
Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
"James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@...elEye.com>,
linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Linux/PPC Development <linuxppc-dev@...abs.org>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/3] ps3: Disk Storage Driver
On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:36:31 +0200 (CEST),
> Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@...ycom.com> wrote:
>
> > We have a probe thread that checks for new storage devices and adds them to the
> > bus with ps3_system_bus_device_register(), which calls device_register().
> >
> > I guess the actual bus probe() routine gets called through the notifier call
> > chain? That's where I got lost...
>
> No, ->probe() is called from device_register() directly. If you just
> have one probe thread, you should have enough serialization.
IC, through bus_attach_device() in device_add().
Any chance this will change? I already added a mutex to ps3disk to protect
against this.
With kind regards,
Geert Uytterhoeven
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