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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