Re: [PATCH] driver core: remove polling for driver_probe_done(v3)

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:48:35 +0800
tom.leiming@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> From: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> This patch adds a function : driver_wait_probe_done,
> which waits on condition of probing done to replace
> polling for driver_probe_done in fs initialization.
> 
> There is no better way to avoid polling for
> driver_probe_done _and_ existence of the root device,
> so we does not replace the driver_probe_done with
> driver_wait_probe_done in such special case.
> 
> Removing polling in fs initialization may lead to
> a faster boot.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@xxxxxxxxx>

ok this one will work fine ;)

Reviewed-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

thanks for fixing this up 
(it will clash with the patch that moves this to one place, but the
same cleanup can be done there)


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