Re: [PATCH] drivercore: Add driver probe deferral mechanism

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Mar 05 2012 - 16:24:46 EST


On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 02:10:52PM -0700, Grant Likely wrote:
> > I think "deferwq" is not a good name for a global thread: all work queues are
> > there for deferring somehting. How about "deferredprobe"?
>
> Sure; again for a follow-on patch if Greg is okay with this version.

It looks good to me.

But, we need some documentation somewhere that we can point people to in
order to show how to use this.

Or, as this really is a bus-specific thing, have you converted any
busses to use it? If so, I'd like to take that patch at the same time,
I'm leary of infrastructure changes without any users.

thanks,

greg k-h
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