On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 02:22:40PM +0200, EXTERNAL Werner Philipp (Praktikant; CR/AEM5) wrote: > Hi pci experts, > > I'm writing a pci driver for a device which will occur in multiple > instances. May it happen that several pci_probe()s are called > concurrently? I've some shared variables I only use during pci_probe() > and I don't know whether I need a mutal exclusion mechanism for them... No, the probe function can not be called at the same time for multiple devices, it will be serialized. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html