Re: 2.0.pre36 Initialization order of drivers

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 10 Sep 1998 22:53:29 +0100 (BST)


> Adaptec is on IRQ 11, the Mitsumi on IRQ 5. During boot, the Mitsumi
> gets initialized _before_ the Adaptec and since I didn't configure it

When compiling you do get a warning ;)

> Wouldn't it be reasonable to initialize SCSI drivers before the
> proprietary CD-ROM drivers? Might be impossible because of possible
> lockups during port probing.

Not enough data to try that

> Alternatively, it would be nice to make I/O and IRQ configurable
> with menuconfig and xconfig. One could even have a value of 0
> meaning "do the usual probing".

That is probably the better answer

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