From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: falcon@meizu.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] async: async device driver probing
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 10:27:29 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140208182729.GB10892@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1391857539-27782-1-git-send-email-falcon@meizu.com>
On Sat, Feb 08, 2014 at 07:05:38PM +0800, falcon@meizu.com wrote:
> From: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
>
> [*Note*: NOT applicable, only for comments.]
>
> To async the slow driver probing function of some devices, the device probing
> support is modified to support async scheduling.
>
> In order to async your driver probing function, please mask the async_probe
> flag to 1, and to make sure one asynced probing is executed before an specified
> point, please call async_synchronize_full() in that point..
>
> Usage:
>
> static struct i2c_driver test_driver = {
> .driver = {
> .name = TEST_DEV_NAME,
> .owner = THIS_MODULE,
> + .async_probe = 1,
> },
Why is this needed, we have defered probing and the container stuff, so
what problem is this solving?
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-08 18:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-08 11:05 falcon
2014-02-08 11:05 ` [PATCH 2/2] async: Allow to group the asynced device probings falcon
2014-02-08 18:28 ` Greg KH
2014-02-08 18:27 ` Greg KH [this message]
2014-08-13 17:20 ` [PATCH 1/2] async: async device driver probing Dmitry Torokhov
2014-08-13 22:02 ` Greg KH
2014-08-13 22:10 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2014-08-14 4:18 ` Greg KH
[not found] <uovsqced4yboii55ncyjppla.1391933910239@email.android.com>
2014-02-13 23:59 ` Greg KH
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