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. - 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/
