Re: Recent and not-so problems with tifm_sd driver

From: Pierre Ossman
Date: Mon Feb 19 2007 - 02:06:50 EST


Alex Dubov wrote:
>
> You'll agree, I think, that add_disk in mmc_block_probe issues a lot of requests (reads partition
> table, fs superblocks and such - plenty of room for critical errors). Then, driver's remove method
> will not be called before driver's probe method had finished. So mmc_block is quite involved, even
> though it does not affect the problem's resolution.

I agree that mmc_block's probe method will generate a whole bunch of requests.
But I don't see how that can be called given the scenario you describe.

Rgds
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