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

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Thu Mar 19 2015 - 12:19:37 EST


Hello,

On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 09:01:46AM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> I think that would be the goal, yes, but I think we'd need some "trial"
> period before we can do that: I need to look into at least serial and
> regulators to make it work (not even considering any userspace). We are
> definitely not ready just yet and that is why I have a whitelist: there
> are classes of devices that all userspaces learned to deal with long ago
> and we can make them not stall boot right now.

Yeah, as I wrote before, as long as there's a plan and push to finish
the conversion, it's fine. I'm just worried that this might rot in
the grey area. Can we please update the patches so that it's clear
that the whitelist is a temporary measure both in the description and
code?

Thanks.

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tejun
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