On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:36:31 +0200 (CEST), Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > We have a probe thread that checks for new storage devices and adds them to the > bus with ps3_system_bus_device_register(), which calls device_register(). > > I guess the actual bus probe() routine gets called through the notifier call > chain? That's where I got lost... No, ->probe() is called from device_register() directly. If you just have one probe thread, you should have enough serialization. (Unless you're doing something interesting from the bus_notifier, which is called via the notifier chain before ->probe()...) - To unsubscribe from this list: 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