[patch 1/3] ps3: Disk Storage Driver

[Cornelia Huck]

On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:36:31 +0200 (CEST),
Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven at sonycom.com> wrote:

> We have a probe thread that checks for new storage devices and adds them to the
> bus with ps3_system_bus_device_register(), which calls device_register().
> 
> I guess the actual bus probe() routine gets called through the notifier call
> chain? That's where I got lost...

No, ->probe() is called from device_register() directly. If you just
have one probe thread, you should have enough serialization.

(Unless you're doing something interesting from the bus_notifier, which
is called via the notifier chain before ->probe()...)