On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 12:12:41PM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote: > On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 05:01:32PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 11:55:53AM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote: > > <snip needless schooling on driver core> > > > > > This code is standing in the way of a much more impactful generic > > > driver layer improvement. > > > > So why not mark it as synchronously loading and forget about it? > > Isn't that obvious? Because hacks like this are likely to cause other > problems down the road and set bad precedences.
In all fairness platform_driver_probe() does pretty much the same and forces us to mark thus drivers with PROBE_FORCE_SYNCHRONOUS as well. And there are quite a few of them: dtor@dtor-ws:~/kernel/work$ grep -r "platform_driver_probe" drivers/ | wc -l 186 What makes edac unusual is that PCI bus is hot-pluggable and thus PCI drivers are rarely one-shot. Thanks. -- Dmitry -- 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/
