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From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> 
> I would really like to se us move all the device probe/attach code
> to run in "normal context", ie enable interrupts before we probe
> everything.
> 
> The main argument for this is the drivers can then use the full
> complement of kernel infrastructure and interrupts during probe
> attach.
> 
> Drivers needs to be able to function in this environment anyway
> if they support removeable devices (pccard, usb, etc).
> 
> Are there reasons to not do this I have overlooked ?

I know of no reason not to, and in fact the old BSD code used to do
this in order to try work out what interrupt a device was on.
(though with shared interrupts this gets harder)

> 
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