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From: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Subject: Re: A better way to sequence driver initialization?
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 17:47:07 -0600
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To: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> wrote:
> In cases where you can specifically note that dependencies, doing so will
> save you a world of pain. Despite that, it's simply not possible to do
> this as a free-for-all. Devices or busses that can tolerate multi-threaded
> probing need to be converted over one at a time, but even then you still
> need the dependency tracking for those that depend on link order today.

Well stated.

g.