On Thu, 10 May 2007 16:55:54 +0200, Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Phillip Susi wrote: > > Stefan Richter wrote: > >> The SCSI stack already has infrastructure for multi-threaded discovery > >> and probing. > > > > So? It would still benefit from using a generic framework that other > > buses can use as well. > > Perhaps, perhaps not. Many details of the If and How of asynchronous, > parallelized probing rest with the low-level drivers. A mix of bus/driver parallelism would probably be the most flexible approach. > [BTW, which ever team attempts to design this generic framework please > brings in detailed knowledge of a variety of bus architectures. I for > one would like to contribute with what I know about IEEE 1394, but > before that I still have to experiment on my own before I have a good > understanding of how to parallelize IEEE 1394 scanning and probing, and > the IEEE 1394 core is being radically reworked at the moment anyway.] I guess I'm too tainted by s390 :/ (which in comparison provides a quite unified way at probing), but I'd be happy to contibute my experiences as well. - 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/
