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authorArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>2009-01-09 15:54:07 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-01-10 15:06:52 -0800
commit886ad09fc83342aa1c5a02a0b6d3298b78a8067f (patch)
tree82a7818829b25db9c67f95c315521dac3da47fc6 /drivers/ata/libata-core.c
parentMerge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip (diff)
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libata: Add a per-host flag to opt-in into parallel port probes
This patch adds a per host flag that allows drivers to opt in into having its busses scanned in parallel. Drivers that do not set this flag get their ports scanned in the "original" sequence. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/ata/libata-core.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/ata/libata-core.c9
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c
index c507a9ac78f4..f810078fafcc 100644
--- a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c
+++ b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c
@@ -5920,6 +5920,15 @@ static void async_port_probe(void *data, async_cookie_t cookie)
{
int rc;
struct ata_port *ap = data;
+
+ /*
+ * If we're not allowed to scan this host in parallel,
+ * we need to wait until all previous scans have completed
+ * before going further.
+ */
+ if (!(ap->host->flags & ATA_HOST_PARALLEL_SCAN))
+ async_synchronize_cookie(cookie);
+
/* probe */
if (ap->ops->error_handler) {
struct ata_eh_info *ehi = &ap->link.eh_info;