Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750836AbWJ0W6a (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Oct 2006 18:58:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750837AbWJ0W6a (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Oct 2006 18:58:30 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:28361 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750836AbWJ0W63 (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Oct 2006 18:58:29 -0400 Subject: Re: [RFC: 2.6.19 patch] let PCI_MULTITHREAD_PROBE depend on BROKEN From: Alan Cox To: Greg KH Cc: Stephen Hemminger , Andrew Morton , Matthew Wilcox , Adrian Bunk , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Pavel Machek , linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz In-Reply-To: <20061027170748.GA9020@kroah.com> References: <20061026224541.GQ27968@stusta.de> <20061027010252.GV27968@stusta.de> <20061027012058.GH5591@parisc-linux.org> <20061026182838.ac2c7e20.akpm@osdl.org> <20061026191131.003f141d@localhost.localdomain> <20061027170748.GA9020@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 23:57:31 +0100 Message-Id: <1161989851.16839.43.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 (2.6.2-1.fc5.5) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 647 Lines: 13 Ar Gwe, 2006-10-27 am 10:07 -0700, ysgrifennodd Greg KH: > It's a very experimental feature, as the help text says. If you can > think of any harsher language to put in that text, please let me know. The ATA drivers use text like (RAVING LUNATIC) for such things. Realistically right now the multithread_probe stuff is useless because your hardware ends up randomly re-ordered and everything breaks. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/