Re: [PATCH 6/8] amd64_edac: enforce synchronous probe

[Tejun Heo]

Hello,

On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 10:45:44AM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> Without the debug options how can we do that? I will definitely not be
> able to go through all the in-tree drivers myself and see if they can be
> asynchronously probed or not. The most I can do is to try enabling the
> option on our side and fixing the drivers/subsystems that fail with
> asynchronous probing. This will be iterative process for some time and
> then we'll drop the debug option and flip the flag to do asynchronous
> probing by default.

Is this even useful for most drivers?  If not, let's just stick with
whitelisting.  If it is useful, I worry that we're quite unlikely to
build working blacklist with this approach.  idk, having both white
and blacklists tend to end badly.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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