Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] driver core: driver probe asynchronously

2012-09-09 Thread Ming Lei
On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 07:25:15AM +0800, Ming Lei wrote: >> Hi, >> >> This patchset implements asynchronous driver probe for driver_register, >> and try to address the below problems about driver init during >> kernel boot: >> - h

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] driver core: driver probe asynchronously

2012-09-09 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Sun, 09 Sep 2012 17:47:46 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > On Sat, 2012-09-08 at 19:57 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > As you state, this doesn't really solve the problem, and will cause a > > lot more (think about all the busses that aren't expecting to have > > their > > probe fu

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] driver core: driver probe asynchronously

2012-09-09 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sat, 2012-09-08 at 19:57 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > As you state, this doesn't really solve the problem, and will cause a > lot more (think about all the busses that aren't expecting to have > their > probe functions called at the same time as other probe functions are > being called.) >

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] driver core: driver probe asynchronously

2012-09-08 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 07:25:15AM +0800, Ming Lei wrote: > Hi, > > This patchset implements asynchronous driver probe for driver_register, > and try to address the below problems about driver init during > kernel boot: > - help to solve some dependency problem during kernel boot > (su

[RFC PATCH 0/5] driver core: driver probe asynchronously

2012-09-08 Thread Ming Lei
Hi, This patchset implements asynchronous driver probe for driver_register, and try to address the below problems about driver init during kernel boot: - help to solve some dependency problem during kernel boot (such as, request_firmware is called inside probe when driver i