Subject: Re: kern/9987
To: Wolfgang Rupprecht <wolfgang@wsrcc.com>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/28/2000 15:06:20
On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 06:02:03AM -0700, Wolfgang Rupprecht wrote:
> 
> Ignatios Souvatzis writes:
> > which is a major change... similiar to how SCSI busses are probed nowadays
> > (delayed to the time when kernel threads work if I understand what happens),
> > this has to be done for wdc probing also?
> 
> I see the hang even after the unit has been booted for several hours
> and the pcmcia card is inserted.  Surely the kernel threads are active
> at that point. ;-)  

Thats not the problem. I suspect the same code has to do the probing at 
kernel startup time.

	-is

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