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From: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
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On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 10:25:20 -0700,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:

> Ow.  Multithreaded probing was probably a bt ambitious, given the current
> status of kernel startup..

IMHO, multithreaded probing as currently implemented doesn't look sane.
See http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=116108334418165&w=2
for my take on it...

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Cornelia Huck
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