Re: [PATCH 6/8] amd64_edac: enforce synchronous probe

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Wed Mar 18 2015 - 12:56:28 EST


On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 03:33:15PM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> From: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxx>
>
> While testing asynchronous PCI probe on this driver I noticed it failed
> so enforce just synchronouse probe for now. Asynchronous probe is not
> used by default and requires userepace intervention. Patches for its
> support will be merged later.
>
> The reason async probe fails is that the init call for this driver
> relies on probe to have finished for at least one device. This needs to
> be addressed before enabling async probe.

I'm still kinda uncomfortable with this both white and black list
behavior. If we're gonna do this, let's please drop the debug options
and build proper blacklists; otherwise, this will never be complete
and we're gonna left with the in-between situation forever.

Thanks.

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tejun
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