Re: [patch] drivers: wait for threaded probes between initcalllevels

From: Alan Cox
Date: Fri Oct 27 2006 - 19:00:40 EST


Ar Gwe, 2006-10-27 am 11:42 -0700, ysgrifennodd Andrew Morton:
> IOW, we want to be multithreaded _within_ an initcall level, but not between
> different levels.

Thats actually insufficient. We have link ordered init sequences in
large numbers of driver subtrees (ATA, watchdog, etc). We'll need
several more initcall layers to fix that.

Alan

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