Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 15 Jan 2000 19:45:03 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: [Patch] Cleanup struct gendisk registration, 2.3.40-pre1 |
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On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Linus, is there any reason to have separate blk_dev_init()? Many > > things (e.g. SCSI) are done outside of it (later). What about gutting it > > completely and doing analog of initcalls instead? I realize that there are > > issues with ordering, but how bad they are? > > I'd much rather this redoing of stuff didnt expand further. The job list > is growing not shrinking right now. Its making me jumpy at least.
Reasonable. However, there is an impressive collection of bug-reports on interaction between ide-scsi and other ide drivers giving exactly the same mess that Andre got with this patch and I really wonder if this is due to bad ordering of ide and scsi initializations. I'm less than happy about the look of ide_init() - look at it yourself and check the usage of 'initialized' in drivers/block/ide.c ;-/ It seems that we are kludging around some dependency problems here. I would really appreciate if somebody familiar with upper layers of ide subsystem and with ide-scsi would comment on situation. Cheers, Al
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