On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 02:59:11PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > Fortunately, USB is SCSI, so we can actually use this code to solve that > > problem too. I wasn't thinking of USB when I wrote the code (because I > > didn't know there was a problem). But really, it's very generic stuff; > > there's a list_head, a pointer to a Scsi_Host and a completion. > > > > I'm not 100% sure what the problem is with USB. > > I seem to remember that the problem with USB was that you can't even > know how many things are still outstanding; devices are free to appear > on the bus at any time after bus power on, without specified timeout... > If the kernel can't know what's out there, it can't wait until it has a > complete picture either, just by virtue of not being able to know when > that is achieved ;-) This is true. thanks, greg k-h - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
