• Greg Kroah-Hartman's avatar
    Driver Core: add ability for drivers to do a threaded probe · d779249e
    Greg Kroah-Hartman authored
    This adds the infrastructure for drivers to do a threaded probe, and
    waits at init time for all currently outstanding probes to complete.
    
    A new kernel thread will be created when the probe() function for the
    driver is called, if the multithread_probe bit is set in the driver
    saying it can support this kind of operation.
    
    I have tested this with USB and PCI, and it works, and shaves off a lot
    of time in the boot process, but there are issues with finding root boot
    disks, and some USB drivers assume that this can never happen, so it is
    currently not enabled for any bus type.  Individual drivers can enable
    this right now if they wish, and bus authors can selectivly turn it on
    as well, once they determine that their subsystem will work properly
    with it.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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