linux-sg2042/drivers/base
Arjan van de Ven d4d5291c8c driver synchronization: make scsi_wait_scan more advanced
There is currently only one way for userspace to say "wait for my storage
device to get ready for the modules I just loaded": to load the
scsi_wait_scan module. Expectations of userspace are that once this
module is loaded, all the (storage) devices for which the drivers
were loaded before the module load are present.

Now, there are some issues with the implementation, and the async
stuff got caught in the middle of this: The existing code only
waits for the scsy async probing to finish, but it did not take
into account at all that probing might not have begun yet.
(Russell ran into this problem on his computer and the fix works for him)

This patch fixes this more thoroughly than the previous "fix", which
had some bad side effects (namely, for kernel code that wanted to wait for
the scsi scan it would also do an async sync, which would deadlock if you did
it from async context already.. there's a report about that on lkml):
The patch makes the module first wait for all device driver probes, and then it
will wait for the scsi parallel scan to finish.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-21 19:40:00 -07:00
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power PM: Rework handling of interrupts during suspend-resume 2009-03-30 21:46:54 +02:00
Kconfig trivial: Fix misspelled firmware in Kconfig 2009-01-06 11:28:07 +01:00
Makefile select IOMMU_API when DMAR and/or AMD_IOMMU is selected 2009-01-03 14:10:09 +01:00
attribute_container.c driver core: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name() 2009-01-06 10:44:31 -08:00
base.h driver core: fix driver_match_device 2009-04-16 16:17:09 -07:00
bus.c driver core: move knode_bus into private structure 2009-03-24 16:38:25 -07:00
class.c driver-core: use klist for class device list and implement iterator 2008-10-09 08:56:04 +02:00
core.c driver: dont update dev_name via device_add path 2009-04-20 08:12:58 -07:00
cpu.c cpumask: use new cpumask_ functions in core code. 2009-03-30 22:05:16 +10:30
dd.c driver synchronization: make scsi_wait_scan more advanced 2009-04-21 19:40:00 -07:00
devres.c Driver core: fix devres_release_all() return value 2007-07-11 16:09:02 -07:00
dma-mapping.c devres: device resource management 2007-02-09 17:39:36 -05:00
driver.c driver core: move knode_driver into private structure 2009-03-24 16:38:25 -07:00
firmware.c firmware: change firmware_kset to firmware_kobj 2008-01-24 20:40:23 -08:00
firmware_class.c Driver core: implement uevent suppress in kobject 2009-03-24 16:38:26 -07:00
hypervisor.c kobject: convert /sys/hypervisor to use kobject_create 2008-01-24 20:40:15 -08:00
init.c Driver core: coding style fixes 2008-01-24 22:50:12 -08:00
iommu.c Merge git://git.infradead.org/iommu-2.6 2009-04-03 10:36:57 -07:00
isa.c dma-mapping: replace all DMA_24BIT_MASK macro with DMA_BIT_MASK(24) 2009-04-07 08:31:12 -07:00
map.c [PATCH] kobj_map semaphore to mutex conversion 2006-03-20 13:42:58 -08:00
memory.c mm: show node to memory section relationship with symlinks in sysfs 2009-01-06 15:59:00 -08:00
module.c Driver core: move the static kobject out of struct driver 2008-01-24 20:40:35 -08:00
node.c cpumask: replace node_to_cpumask with cpumask_of_node. 2009-03-13 14:49:46 +10:30
platform.c Driver Core: early platform driver 2009-04-16 16:17:10 -07:00
sys.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2009-04-03 15:24:35 -07:00
topology.c cpumask: Use topology_core_cpumask()/topology_thread_cpumask() 2009-01-11 19:12:49 +01:00
transport_class.c SCSI: convert struct class_device to struct device 2008-04-19 19:10:33 -07:00