Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: 2.0.pre36 Initialization order of drivers | Date | Thu, 10 Sep 1998 22:53:29 +0100 (BST) |
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> Adaptec is on IRQ 11, the Mitsumi on IRQ 5. During boot, the Mitsumi > gets initialized _before_ the Adaptec and since I didn't configure it
When compiling you do get a warning ;)
> Wouldn't it be reasonable to initialize SCSI drivers before the > proprietary CD-ROM drivers? Might be impossible because of possible > lockups during port probing.
Not enough data to try that
> Alternatively, it would be nice to make I/O and IRQ configurable > with menuconfig and xconfig. One could even have a value of 0 > meaning "do the usual probing".
That is probably the better answer
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