From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <[email protected]> We'll soon add generic support for asynchronous probe, before that gets merged lets let drivers annotate if they should never probe asynchronously.
Cc: Tejun Heo <[email protected]> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> Cc: Doug Thompson <[email protected]> Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <[email protected]> --- include/linux/device.h | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/linux/device.h b/include/linux/device.h index 43d183a..4de6328 100644 --- a/include/linux/device.h +++ b/include/linux/device.h @@ -200,6 +200,10 @@ extern struct klist *bus_get_device_klist(struct bus_type *bus); * @owner: The module owner. * @mod_name: Used for built-in modules. * @suppress_bind_attrs: Disables bind/unbind via sysfs. + * @sync_probe: requests probe to be run always be run synchronously even + * if userspace asked us to run asynchronously. Some devices drivers + * may be known to not work well with async probe, use this to annotate + * your driver if you know it needs synchronous probe. * @of_match_table: The open firmware table. * @acpi_match_table: The ACPI match table. * @probe: Called to query the existence of a specific device, @@ -233,6 +237,7 @@ struct device_driver { const char *mod_name; /* used for built-in modules */ bool suppress_bind_attrs; /* disables bind/unbind via sysfs */ + bool sync_probe; const struct of_device_id *of_match_table; const struct acpi_device_id *acpi_match_table; -- 2.1.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
