linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mtd: spi-nor: Prefer asynchronous probe

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Message-ID: <160145480408.16293.4165746233350450081.b4-ty@ti.com>
Date:   Wed, 30 Sep 2020 14:04:42 +0530
From:   Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@...com>
To:     Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>,
        Tudor Ambarus <tudor.ambarus@...rochip.com>
CC:     Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@...com>,
        <linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: spi-nor: Prefer asynchronous probe

On Wed, 2 Sep 2020 16:00:40 -0700, Douglas Anderson wrote:
> On my system the spi_nor_probe() took ~6 ms at bootup.  That's not a
> lot, but every little bit adds up to a slow bootup.  While we can get
> this out of the boot path by making it a module, there are times where
> it is convenient (or even required) for this to be builtin the kernel.
> Let's set that we prefer async probe so that we don't block other
> drivers from probing while we are probing.
> 
> [...]

Applied to https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mtd/linux.git spi-nor/next, thanks!
[1/1] mtd: spi-nor: Prefer asynchronous probe
      https://git.kernel.org/mtd/c/03edda0e1e

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Regards
Vignesh