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Message-ID: <20090130143131.0214a887@gondolin> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:31:31 +0100 From: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com> To: tom.leiming@...il.com Cc: kay.sievers@...y.org, greg@...ah.com, arjan@...radead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ming Lei <tom.leiming@...il.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver core: remove polling for driver_probe_done(v3) On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:48:35 +0800, tom.leiming@...il.com wrote: > From: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@...il.com> > > This patch adds a function : driver_wait_probe_done, > which waits on condition of probing done to replace > polling for driver_probe_done in fs initialization. > > There is no better way to avoid polling for > driver_probe_done _and_ existence of the root device, > so we does not replace the driver_probe_done with > driver_wait_probe_done in such special case. > > Removing polling in fs initialization may lead to > a faster boot. > > Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@...il.com> > --- > drivers/base/dd.c | 12 ++++++++++++ > include/linux/device.h | 1 + > init/do_mounts.c | 4 ++-- > init/do_mounts_md.c | 3 +-- > 4 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) Looks good and also survived a quick test on my s390 LPAR. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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