Re: [patch 1/2] fastboot: Add a module parameter to skip probing ofspecific ports

From: Alan Cox
Date: Tue Aug 12 2008 - 08:17:47 EST


> > What
> > defines the probe order here particularly as people are pushing for
> > parallel probing of multiple devices.
>
> the patches I'm pushing for this don't change probe order; that has
> been tried before and wasn't a great success.

That was a question sorry. You are sledgehammering controllers by
discovery sequence - you've no idea if they will always be found in that
order. As such your boot option is incredibly fragile.
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