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SubjectRe: [PATCH] drivercore: Add driver probe deferral mechanism
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 17:50, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote:
>
>> I wonder if doing this all from a workqueue in the first place is going
>> to cause problems as probe isn't normally done this way at all.
>
> Yeah, I would expect unforeseen problems with the async thread too.
> It's probably all solvable, but it sounds troublesome to find out if
> things go wrong.

I think it is worth solving though since the feature is important. I
can certainly block out the deferral code with a Kconfig symbol so
that it only gets built when a driver selects CONFIG_PROBE_DEFERRAL.
That would keep the code out of x86 kernels while us embedded folks
iron out the bugs.

g.


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