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Date:      Wed, 5 Apr 1995 08:36:48 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com>
To:        peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Cc:        uhclem@nemesis.lonestar.org, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: Suggestion on slow probing devices
Message-ID:  <199504051536.IAA08584@ref.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: <199504051143.GAA03868@bonkers.taronga.com> from "Peter da Silva" at Apr 5, 95 06:43:11 am

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> 
> > The solution was to create two probing passes.  The system would
> > effectively call each devices' probe routine twice.
> 
> How about generalizing it? If there's a big delay, have the probe return a
> flag saying "more work to do, call me again after you've asked everyone else".
> That way you could handle multi-stage delays, like with SCSI.

I'd say the right thing to do would be to get the timer flying and make
a "HW-probe-attach" process...

-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dknet.dk> -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc.
'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent'
=> 'no rude people are relevant'



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