Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 8 Feb 2014 10:27:29 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] async: async device driver probing |
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On Sat, Feb 08, 2014 at 07:05:38PM +0800, falcon@meizu.com wrote: > From: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com> > > [*Note*: NOT applicable, only for comments.] > > To async the slow driver probing function of some devices, the device probing > support is modified to support async scheduling. > > In order to async your driver probing function, please mask the async_probe > flag to 1, and to make sure one asynced probing is executed before an specified > point, please call async_synchronize_full() in that point.. > > Usage: > > static struct i2c_driver test_driver = { > .driver = { > .name = TEST_DEV_NAME, > .owner = THIS_MODULE, > + .async_probe = 1, > },
Why is this needed, we have defered probing and the container stuff, so what problem is this solving?
greg k-h
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