Re: [RFC PATCH] Multi-threaded device probing

[Stefan Richter]

James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> What happens about the logging?
> Surely one would want the output from one probe to be output into the
> log as a block, and not mix the output from multiple simultaneous probes.

Use single-line printks were possible, or mutex-protected multiline 
blocks where you really can't do without multiple lines of printks that 
really cannot be separated. (Don't perform time consuming functions 
within those mutexes; that would defeat the multithreaded probing...)

To adjust printks is only the beginning of what is to be done to adapt 
single-threaded bus probes to multithreaded ones. There may be hidden 
assumptions that rely on single-threaded execution.
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Stefan Richter
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