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    driver-core: add asynchronous probing support for drivers · 765230b5
    Dmitry Torokhov authored
    Some devices take a long time when initializing, and not all drivers are
    suited to initialize their devices when they are open. For example,
    input drivers need to interrogate their devices in order to publish
    device's capabilities before userspace will open them. When such drivers
    are compiled into kernel they may stall entire kernel initialization.
    
    This change allows drivers request for their probe functions to be
    called asynchronously during driver and device registration (manual
    binding is still synchronous). Because async_schedule is used to perform
    asynchronous calls module loading will still wait for the probing to
    complete.
    
    Note that the end goal is to make the probing asynchronous by default,
    so annotating drivers with PROBE_PREFER_ASYNCHRONOUS is a temporary
    measure that allows us to speed up boot process while we validating and
    fixing the rest of the drivers and preparing userspace.
    
    This change is based on earlier patch by "Luis R. Rodriguez"
    <mcgrof@suse.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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