Re: [patch] drivers: wait for threaded probes between initcalllevels

[Alan Cox]

Ar Llu, 2006-10-30 am 10:44 +0100, ysgrifennodd Cornelia Huck:
> Would it be sufficient just to make the busses wait until all their
> devices are through with their setup? This is what the ccw bus on s390
> does:

For ATA and IDE no, it might work with SCSI but your devices would
randomly re-order which is also obnoxious. IDE relies on both link probe
order and also has code that knows boot time processing is single
threaded. 

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