Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754740AbYFBUFY (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jun 2008 16:05:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752581AbYFBUFL (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jun 2008 16:05:11 -0400 Received: from smtp-out03.alice-dsl.net ([88.44.63.5]:50814 "EHLO smtp-out03.alice-dsl.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752561AbYFBUFJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jun 2008 16:05:09 -0400 To: Rick van Rein Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Future Linux on Bistable Storage From: Andi Kleen References: <20080602125904.GA15129@phantom.vanrein.org> Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 22:04:36 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20080602125904.GA15129@phantom.vanrein.org> (Rick van Rein's message of "Mon, 2 Jun 2008 12:59:04 +0000") Message-ID: <87prqzvc17.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-OriginalArrivalTime: 02 Jun 2008 19:57:29.0254 (UTC) FILETIME=[E3289C60:01C8C4EA] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 560 Lines: 16 Rick van Rein writes: > Some degree of serialism must exist, but after scanning a bus would > it not be possible to fork threads to initiate each of the devices found > on it? Multithreaded driver initialization has been tried, but reverted because it triggered too many driver bugs. -Andi -- 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/