netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/7 v3] initdev:kernel:USB init device discovery notification

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Message-ID: <20090807174209.GB30450@cuplxvomd02.corp.sa.net>
Date:	Fri, 7 Aug 2009 10:42:09 -0700
From:	David VomLehn <dvomlehn@...co.com>
To:	Alan Jenkins <sourcejedi.lkml@...glemail.com>
Cc:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, greg@...ah.com,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	arjan@...radead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7 v3] initdev:kernel:USB init device discovery
	notification

On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 06:17:51PM +0100, Alan Jenkins wrote:
> On 8/7/09, Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu> wrote:
> > On Fri, 7 Aug 2009, Alan Jenkins wrote:
> >
> >> > +/* The mask of possible USB boot devices depends on what drivers and
> >> > + * options have been configured into the kernel.  There are too many
> >> > + * USB network config options to list here, so just assume it is always
> >> > + * possible to have a USB network device.
> >> > + */
> >>
> >> That could be fixed though.  Make the "USB Network Adaptors" menu into
> >> an option.  Then you just have e.g. "CONFIG_NETDEV_USB", plus the two
> >> class devices outside the menu (CONFIG_USB_ACM and CONFIG_USB_WDM).
> 
> Oops, scratch WDM.  It doesn't actually provide a network device
> (otherwise it would depend on NET).
> 
> > That could be done.  It might even meet with the approval of the
> > networking maintainer, independent of this patch series.
> >
> > But what if somebody adds yet another networking class driver outside
> > the menu?
> 
> Hmm.
> 
> Ok, how about a single (hidden) USB_HAS_NETDEV.  NETDEV_USB and
> USB_ACM select USB_HAS_NETDEV.
> 
> Textual juxtaposition or simple copy+paste inside class/Kconfig should
> help it get picked up.  And I'd add a comment pointing the bewildered
> to the definition of usb_initdev_mask.
> 
> I'll write a patch for your inspection this evening.

I remember thinking about this and seem to recall that Alan Stern and I
tossed this idea around, but didn't act on it. Such a thing holds potential
for avoiding an unnecessary delay during boot. Whether it actually makes
things faster in a given configuration will depend on that configuration's
critical path, but I would welcome such a patch on the basis that it's
unlikely to hurt and could improve boot times in some circumstances.

> Alan
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