On Wed, 9 May 2007 09:50:09 -0700 (PDT),
[email protected] wrote:
> On Wed, 9 May 2007, Greg KH wrote:
> > Why is it dead? Since when is PCI the only bus in the system?
>
> correct, while this discussion started over the PCI_MULTITHREAD_PROBE it's
> focusing on the generic problem that would apply to any bus
s/multithreaded/async/ (more generic and better describing what we
want imo) That's why I said the multithreaded approach was dead (sorry
if that was confusing).
> I don't think anyone is saying that PCI is the problem here. We're trying
> to identify what needs to be done for any arbatrary bus, if a particular
> bus doesn't need to split it's initialization up becouse there are no
> delays (and therefor no gains for multithreading) then drivers for that
> bus don't bother to implement any async portion.
Exactly. A general idea/framework on how to do async probing would be
good.
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