On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Linus, is there any reason to have separate blk_dev_init()? Many
> > things (e.g. SCSI) are done outside of it (later). What about gutting it
> > completely and doing analog of initcalls instead? I realize that there are
> > issues with ordering, but how bad they are?
>
> I'd much rather this redoing of stuff didnt expand further. The job list
> is growing not shrinking right now. Its making me jumpy at least.
Reasonable. However, there is an impressive collection of bug-reports on
interaction between ide-scsi and other ide drivers giving exactly the same
mess that Andre got with this patch and I really wonder if this is due to
bad ordering of ide and scsi initializations. I'm less than happy about
the look of ide_init() - look at it yourself and check the usage of
'initialized' in drivers/block/ide.c ;-/ It seems that we are kludging
around some dependency problems here. I would really appreciate if
somebody familiar with upper layers of ide subsystem and with ide-scsi
would comment on situation.
Cheers,
Al
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