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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SCSI discover order strangeness [Bug 8412] New: CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2 makes RAID detection fail
Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 20:31:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070502033102.GA7890@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17975.3196.435174.722895@notabene.brown>

On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 07:46:36PM +1000, Neil Brown wrote:
> 
> My first thought was that the new threaded device discovery was
> allowing md init to happen before scsi discovery was complete.  Maybe
> the presence of CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2 makes some bit go faster...
> 
> However 
>   # CONFIG_SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC is not set
> 
> so maybe not...
> 
> Greg (or anyone else reading): you know about this threaded
> discovery.. could it allow some discovery to complete after userspace
> has started, and does CONFIG_SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC affect it?

This kind of threaded discovery is different from the bus-level threaded
probing that I originally proposed a while back, and then later
retracted due to bugs.

So this is just a scsi thing, I know nothing about it.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-02  3:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200705010918.l419IC8B016596@fire-2.osdl.org>
2007-05-01  9:46 ` SCSI discover order strangeness [Bug 8412] New: CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2 makes RAID detection fail Neil Brown
2007-05-02  3:31   ` Greg KH [this message]
2007-05-07  4:22     ` Neil Brown

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