Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:30:43 +0100 | From | Cornelia Huck <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] driver core: remove polling for driver_probe_done(v2) |
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On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:17:36 +0800, Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com> wrote:
> If probing done does not mean the device is available, this patch should be > ignored or fixed further. > > But polling is really not good, is there a approach to avoid the polling for > appearence of the root device?
I think the parts of your patch that replace polling for driver_probe_done() with waiting on the waitqueue are fine. The problematic part is the rootwait special case, where polling seems unavoidable afaics.
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