Re: [PATCH] driver core: multithreaded probing - more parallelismcontrol

From: Stefan Richter
Date: Wed Jun 20 2007 - 11:10:22 EST


Huang, Ying wrote:
> This is a new version of multithreaded probing patch, with more
> parallelism control added.

Thanks. (I'd like to try it out but will probably be busy with other
stuff during the next few weeks.)

...
> A field named "probe_queue_no" is added to "struct device", which

I'd call it probe_queue_number or maybe probe_queue_id. The term "no"
is ambiguous.

> indicates probing queue No. on which the probing of the device will be
> done. The subsystem can control the parallelism through this field.

Is the queue number kernel-global or per subsystem?

...
> + * schedule_probe - schedule a probing to be done later
> + * @probe_queue_no: probing queue No. on which the probing will be done
> + * @probe: probing infromation include probing function and parameter
^^^^^^^^^^^
typo: information
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