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Date:	Wed, 26 Jul 2006 00:22:48 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	Keshavamurthy Anil S <anil.s.keshavamurthy@...el.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, greg@...ah.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Multi-threaded device probing

On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 03:57:42PM -0700, Keshavamurthy Anil S wrote:
> >    +       data = kmalloc(sizeof(*data), GFP_KERNEL);
> >    +       data->drv = drv;
> >    +       data->dev = dev;
> >    +
> > +	if (drv->multithread_probe) {
>             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 	 if (drv->multithread_probe && !cmdline_mtprobe) {
> 
> Also I think providing cmdline option to override the default 
> multithread probe behaviour would be good. Something like above
> which is useful while debugging the boot issues.

As this is going to be a bus specific option, one would think that the
individual busses would provide such a switch, if they wanted to or not.

thanks,

greg k-h
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