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Message-ID: <20090130065224.47729f41@infradead.org>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 06:52:24 -0800
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To: tom.leiming@...il.com
Cc: kay.sievers@...y.org, greg@...ah.com, cornelia.huck@...ibm.com,
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>
ok this one will work fine ;)
Reviewed-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
thanks for fixing this up
(it will clash with the patch that moves this to one place, but the
same cleanup can be done there)
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