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DateWed, 26 Jul 2006 00:24:52 -0700
FromGreg KH <>
SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH] Multi-threaded device probing
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 11:15:53PM +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
> > During the kernel summit, I was reminded by the wish by some people to
> > do device probing in parallel, so I created the following patch.  It
> > offers up the ability for the driver core to create a new thread for
> > every driver<->device probe call.  To enable this, the driver needs to
> > have the multithread_probe flag set to 1, otherwise the "traditional"
> > sequencial probe happens.
> 
> What happens about the logging?

Nothing, it works just fine.  A little messy perhaps, but it's all
there.  I don't see the problem here...

> Surely one would want the output from one probe to be output into the
> log as a block, and not mix the output from multiple simultaneous probes.

Why not?  Each subsystem already uses the dev_printk() for the most part
for their logging messages, so it's easy to figure out what is going on.

thanks,

greg k-h
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