On Tue, 8 May 2007 12:31:22 -0700 (PDT), Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > What if two devices become hotplugged at the same time? Does this imply > > that the bus _always_ needs to do some serializing there? > > You want to test it? Be my guest. It was more a rhetorical question. If not all drivers can handle it, serialize at the bus level. But if all drivers can, there's no reason for the bus to do it. On a bus with a small number of drivers, I prefer to have the drivers in good shape. (This kind of implies that e. g. pci needs to serialize, but css/ccw doesn't, and doesn't have to.) > But the final nail in the coffin is that doing it at the bus level is > INFERIOR. As you yourself admitted, it's better to do some things > synchronously. How so? It is possible to do some stuff synchronously. But why shouldn't other things be done asynchronously? (And there is a place both for bus-level parallelism and driver-level parallelism. Just depends on your bus/driver/device.) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
