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SubjectRe: [PATCH] driver core: remove polling for driver_probe_done(v2)
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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