Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965504AbWJ3KsM (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Oct 2006 05:48:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965509AbWJ3KsL (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Oct 2006 05:48:11 -0500 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:61841 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965504AbWJ3KsJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Oct 2006 05:48:09 -0500 Subject: Re: [patch] drivers: wait for threaded probes between initcall levels From: Alan Cox To: Cornelia Huck Cc: Andrew Morton , Pavel Machek , Greg KH , Stephen Hemminger , Matthew Wilcox , Adrian Bunk , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz In-Reply-To: <20061030104435.623fd057@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.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> <20061027172219.GC30416@elf.ucw.cz> <20061027113908.4a82c28a.akpm@osdl.org> <20061027114144.f8a5addc.akpm@osdl.org> <20061027114237.d577c153.akpm@osdl.org> <1161989970.16839.45.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20061027160626.8ac4a910.akpm@osdl.org> <20061030104435.623fd057@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 10:48:51 +0000 Message-Id: <1162205331.11965.0.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: 677 Lines: 15 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. - 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/