On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 04:06:26PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 23:59:30 +0100
> Alan Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Ar Gwe, 2006-10-27 am 11:42 -0700, ysgrifennodd Andrew Morton:
> > > IOW, we want to be multithreaded _within_ an initcall level, but not between
> > > different levels.
> >
> > Thats actually insufficient. We have link ordered init sequences in
> > large numbers of driver subtrees (ATA, watchdog, etc). We'll need
> > several more initcall layers to fix that.
> >
>
> It would be nice to express those dependencies in some clearer and less
> fragile manner than link order. I guess finer-grained initcall levels
> would do that, but it doesn't scale very well.
Would making use of depmod data be a step in the right direction?
ie nic driver calls extern function (e.g. pci_enable_device())
and therefore must depend on module which provides that function.
My guess is this probably isn't 100% sufficient to replace all initcall
levels. But likely sufficient within a given initcall level.
My main concern are circular dependencies (which are rare).
> But whatever. I think multithreaded probing just doesn't pass the
> benefit-versus-hassle test, sorry. Make it dependent on CONFIG_GREGKH ;)
Isn't already? :)
I thought parallel PCI and SCSI probing on system with multiple NICs and
"SCSI" storage requires udev to create devices with consistent naming.
thanks,
grant
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