linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] driver core: multithreaded probing

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Message-ID: <46794343.3080204@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Date:	Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:09:55 +0200
From:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
To:	"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>
CC:	Greg K-H <greg@...ah.com>,
	Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>,
	"; david@...g.hm" <david@...g.hm>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Duncan Sands <duncan.sands@...h.u-psud.fr>,
	Phillip Susi <psusi@....rr.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver core: multithreaded probing - more parallelism
 control

Huang, Ying wrote:
> This is a new version of multithreaded probing patch, with more
> parallelism control added.

Thanks.  (I'd like to try it out but will probably be busy with other
stuff during the next few weeks.)

...
> A field named "probe_queue_no" is added to "struct device", which

I'd call it probe_queue_number or maybe probe_queue_id.  The term "no"
is ambiguous.

> indicates probing queue No. on which the probing of the device will be
> done. The subsystem can control the parallelism through this field.

Is the queue number kernel-global or per subsystem?

...
> + * schedule_probe - schedule a probing to be done later
> + * @probe_queue_no: probing queue No. on which the probing will be done
> + * @probe: probing infromation include probing function and parameter
                      ^^^^^^^^^^^
typo: information
-- 
Stefan Richter
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