linux/include
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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acpi Merge branches 'release', 'APERF', 'ARAT', 'misc', 'kelvin', 'device-lock' and 'bjorn.notify' into release 2009-04-07 18:18:42 -04:00
asm-generic PERCPU: Collect the DECLARE/DEFINE declarations together 2009-04-21 19:40:00 -07:00
crypto crypto: zlib - New zlib crypto module, using pcomp 2009-03-04 15:16:19 +08:00
drm Merge branch 'drm-intel-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/anholt/drm-intel 2009-04-14 13:16:40 -07:00
keys
linux driver synchronization: make scsi_wait_scan more advanced 2009-04-21 19:40:00 -07:00
math-emu
media V4L/DVB (11381): ivtv/cx18: remove VIDIOC_INT_S_AUDIO_ROUTING debug support. 2009-04-06 21:44:28 -03:00
mtd make MTD headers use strict integer types 2009-03-26 18:14:17 +01:00
net ipv6: Fix NULL pointer dereference with time-wait sockets 2009-04-11 01:53:06 -07:00
pcmcia
rdma Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6 2009-03-26 15:54:36 -07:00
rxrpc
scsi PM/Hibernate: Wait for SCSI devices scan to complete during resume 2009-04-13 11:37:07 -07:00
sound Merge branch 'topic/hda' into for-linus 2009-04-15 11:24:09 +02:00
trace tracing/syscalls: use a dedicated file header 2009-04-09 05:43:32 +02:00
video include/video/cyblafb.h: remove it, it's unused 2009-04-13 15:04:30 -07:00
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