A better way to sequence driver initialization?

Grant Likely grant.likely at secretlab.ca
Sun Apr 11 09:47:07 EST 2010


On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Paul Mundt <lethal at 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.


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