Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus WALLEIJ <> | Date | Thu, 5 Aug 2010 08:26:00 +0200 | Subject | RE: [PATCH] RFC: AMBA bus discardable probe() function |
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[Greg] > [Me] > > + spin_lock(&amba_bustype.p->klist_drivers.k_lock); > > Ick, nope, you can't do this, sorry. That's a "private" structure for > a reason.
Yeah I get it, but in the platform bus case what's that traversal of the klists actually for? I didn't get it, and was guessing that it was considering the case where devices spawn new devices.
> So what's the real driving force here, just saving a few hundred bytes > after booting? Or something else?
A few thousand actually according to Russells measurements. And no I don't think it's worth it unless someone else challenge this...
Yours, Linus Walleij
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