Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 31 Aug 2014 10:52:43 -0700 | From | Dmitry Torokhov <> | Subject | Re: [RFC v1 0/3] driver-core: add asynch module loading support |
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On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 07:05:26AM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote: > On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 07:02:00AM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote: > > So, something like the following. A couple things to note > > > > * driver_attach() can never fail but is marked with __must_check. We > > prolly should change it to void. > > > > * Old/weird userspace which depends on insmod to wait for device > > probing might choke and the new behavior might need to be switched > > somehow (sysctl, insmod param or whatever). > > One more thing. > > * Use of ordered workqueue probably isn't necessary and using > system_unbound_wq should be fine. >
For my use case (touchpad taking long time to initialize) I explicitly do not want it to keep order of initialization. I want to make sure the rest of the kernel continues initialization while touchpad device resets.
Thanks.
-- Dmitry
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