Re: Please revert 5adc55da4a7758021bcc374904b0f8b076508a11(PCI_MULTITHREAD_PROBE)

[Cornelia Huck]

On Wed, 9 May 2007 09:50:09 -0700 (PDT),
david@xxxxxxx 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.
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