From: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com>
To: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Cc: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net>,
kernel-discuss@handhelds.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Jiri Kosina <jikos@jikos.cz>
Subject: Re: [Kernel-discuss] Re: parallel boot device initialisation (kernel-space not userspace)
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 21:35:09 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <457C7D8D.7090703@f2s.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4579EAE7.9030201@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Stefan Richter wrote:
> Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> Your thought to pick one subsystem and implement multithreaded probing is
> exactly the way to go. If the subsystem is already properly using the
> driver core, part of what's needed is already in place. You "merely" have
> to look out for proper access to shared resources, and maybe synchronization
> of the final step in initialization... (Like in case of the SCSI subsystem.
> People usually want to wait for all scanning threads to finish before the
> system proceeds to mount filesystems.)
Would love to see this happen to platform devices...
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-10 21:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-08 16:34 parallel boot device initialisation (kernel-space not userspace) Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2006-12-08 16:38 ` Jiri Kosina
2006-12-08 17:42 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2006-12-08 22:44 ` Stefan Richter
2006-12-10 21:35 ` Ian Molton [this message]
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