On Tuesday, September 09, 2014 03:46:23 PM James Bottomley wrote: > On Wed, 2014-09-10 at 07:41 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: > > > > The thing is that we have to have dynamic mechanism to listen for > > device attachments no matter what and such mechanism has been in place > > for a long time at this point. The synchronous wait simply doesn't > > serve any purpose anymore and kinda gets in the way in that it makes > > it a possibly extremely slow process to tell whether loading of a > > module succeeded or not because the wait for the initial round of > > probe is piggybacked. > > OK, so we just fire and forget in userland ... why bother inventing an > elaborate new infrastructure in the kernel to do exactly what > > modprobe <mod> & > > would do?
Just so we do not forget: we also want the no-modules case to also be able to probe asynchronously so that a slow device does not stall kernel booting. Thanks. -- Dmitry -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
