Rick van Rein <rick@groengemak.nl> writes:

quoted text
> Some degree of serialism must exist, but after scanning a bus would
> it not be possible to fork threads to initiate each of the devices found
> on it?

Multithreaded driver initialization has been tried, but reverted
because it triggered too many driver bugs.

-Andi

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