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

[Dmitry Torokhov]

On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 12:19:27PM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote:
> 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?

OK, will do.

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry
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