Re: pci_probe called concurrently?

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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
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