Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: PATCH: Multiprobe sanitizer | From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <> | Date | Thu, 17 Aug 2006 14:12:57 +0200 |
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On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 05:00 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 11:24:35AM +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > Probe ordering is fragile and completely defeated with busses that are > > already probed asynchronously (like USB or firewire), and things can > > only get worse. Thus we need to look for generic solutions, the trick of > > maintaining probe ordering will work around problems today but we'll > > still hit the wall in an increasing number of cases in the future. > > That's exactly why udev was created :) > > It can handle bus ordering issues already today just fine, and distros > use it this way in shipping, "enterprise ready" products.
Only up to a certain point and for certain drivers... but yeah. That's probably the right direction to take. Now, I'll let you and Alan argue wether it's sufficient or not to move toward a fully parallel probing :)
Ben.
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