From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PATCH: Multiprobe sanitizer
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 16:43:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060817144329.GA20790@aepfle.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060817122244.GA17956@kroah.com>
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 05:22:44AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 02:12:57PM +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 05:00 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 11:24:35AM +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > > > Probe ordering is fragile and completely defeated with busses that are
> > > > already probed asynchronously (like USB or firewire), and things can
> > > > only get worse. Thus we need to look for generic solutions, the trick of
> > > > maintaining probe ordering will work around problems today but we'll
> > > > still hit the wall in an increasing number of cases in the future.
> > >
> > > That's exactly why udev was created :)
> > >
> > > It can handle bus ordering issues already today just fine, and distros
> > > use it this way in shipping, "enterprise ready" products.
> >
> > Only up to a certain point and for certain drivers... but yeah.
>
> What drivers are not supported by this? Seriously, have we missed any?
Do serial drivers have a device symlink now, and video drivers?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-17 14:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-16 16:42 PATCH: Multiprobe sanitizer Alan Cox
2006-08-16 22:26 ` Greg KH
2006-08-17 0:36 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-17 6:57 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-08-17 7:00 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-17 8:41 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-17 9:24 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-08-17 12:00 ` Greg KH
2006-08-17 12:12 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-08-17 12:22 ` Greg KH
2006-08-17 12:37 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-08-17 13:04 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-17 13:10 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-08-17 15:44 ` Greg KH
2006-08-17 14:43 ` Olaf Hering [this message]
2006-08-17 15:42 ` Greg KH
2006-08-17 11:58 ` Greg KH
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