Re: Future Linux on Bistable Storage

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Mon Jun 02 2008 - 16:05:25 EST


Rick van Rein <rick@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Some degree of serialism must exist, but after scanning a bus would
> it not be possible to fork threads to initiate each of the devices found
> on it?

Multithreaded driver initialization has been tried, but reverted
because it triggered too many driver bugs.

-Andi

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