On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:36:31 +0200 (CEST),
Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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()...)
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