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Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 15:57:42 -0700
From: Keshavamurthy Anil S <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Multi-threaded device probing
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>    +       data = kmalloc(sizeof(*data), GFP_KERNEL);
>    +       data->drv = drv;
>    +       data->dev = dev;
>    +
> +	if (drv->multithread_probe) {
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	 if (drv->multithread_probe && !cmdline_mtprobe) {

Also I think providing cmdline option to override the default 
multithread probe behaviour would be good. Something like above
which is useful while debugging the boot issues.

Cheers ,
Anil S Keshavamurthy