"Ronald G. Minnich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On 14 Feb 2003, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> > For a number of these case forcing the device into the table
> > of devices present can help a lot.
> 
> yes but, there is a loop. 
> 
> = enable some piece of the device
> = scan pci
> = enable more bits of the device based on the pci scan
> 
> I am pretty sure dependency trees don't cover that kind of cycle.

First what the code does right now is:

Enable pci bus.
scan pci bus.
Enable pci buses found.
scan pci buses found.

etc.

So in the worst case you should be able to lie and put
in a pseudo device, or two that happen to be called at the proper
times.

Which I why I think I can get away with a single pass...

Eric



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