Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 29 Mar 2008 09:04:34 +0100 | From | Pierre Ossman <> | Subject | Re: SDIO: IO-Ready Bit |
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On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:41:25 +0200 "Tomas Winkler" <tomasw@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Anyhow I've seen that concept of parallel probe is not so new. It was > in 2.6.18 and removed in 2.619. > Probably different approach, maybe more would be adding a parallel > initial function. > Probe will just register to the bus and relevant subsystem, it will be fast. > Optional Initialization function will run after probe in different > thread, this would be the place for running FW download. > Device won't be considered initialized till this function haven't > completed or is not implemented. >
I would suspect that would just slow things down in most cases. Most busses have shared bandwidth, so letting each device take turns is usually faster than a thundering herd.
Feel free to make your case to the device core maintainers though.
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