linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] driver core: remove polling for driver_probe

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Message-ID: <20090204230851.GF18484@kroah.com>
Date:	Wed, 4 Feb 2009 15:08:51 -0800
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Cc:	tom.leiming@...il.com, kay.sievers@...y.org,
	cornelia.huck@...ibm.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver core: remove polling for driver_probe_done(v3)

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 06:52:24AM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 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)

What patch is that?  Should i be taking this?  Or are they in some other
tree?

thanks,

greg k-h
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