Re: PATCH: Multiprobe sanitizer

[Olaf Hering]

On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 05:22:44AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 02:12:57PM +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > 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. 
> 
> What drivers are not supported by this?  Seriously, have we missed any?

Do serial drivers have a device symlink now, and video drivers?
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