linux-kernel - Re: [driver-core PATCH v6 6/9] driver core: Probe devices asynchronously instead of the driver

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Date:   Thu, 08 Nov 2018 15:59:46 -0800
From:   Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>
To:     Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...ux.intel.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Cc:     linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org, tj@...nel.org,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
        jiangshanlai@...il.com, rafael@...nel.org, len.brown@...el.com,
        pavel@....cz, zwisler@...nel.org, dan.j.williams@...el.com,
        dave.jiang@...el.com
Subject: Re: [driver-core PATCH v6 6/9] driver core: Probe devices
 asynchronously instead of the driver

On Thu, 2018-11-08 at 10:07 -0800, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> Probe devices asynchronously instead of the driver. This results in us
> seeing the same behavior if the device is registered before the driver or
> after. This way we can avoid serializing the initialization should the
> driver not be loaded until after the devices have already been added.

Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>