From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, greg@kroah.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Multi-threaded device probing
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 02:02:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200607270202.00854.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060725203028.GA1270@kroah.com>
On Tuesday 25 July 2006 22:30, Greg KH wrote:
> --- gregkh-2.6.orig/include/linux/device.h
> +++ gregkh-2.6/include/linux/device.h
> @@ -105,6 +105,8 @@ struct device_driver {
> void (*shutdown) (struct device * dev);
> int (*suspend) (struct device * dev, pm_message_t state);
> int (*resume) (struct device * dev);
> +
> + unsigned int multithread_probe:1;
> };
>
Why use a bit field here? It ends up consuming sizeof(long) anyway
and causes more complex code, with no obvious benefit.
Arnd <><
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-27 0:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-25 20:30 [RFC PATCH] Multi-threaded device probing Greg KH
2006-07-25 21:09 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2006-07-25 21:27 ` Greg KH
2006-07-25 21:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-07-25 22:00 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-07-26 7:28 ` Greg KH
2006-07-25 22:15 ` James Courtier-Dutton
2006-07-26 0:08 ` Stefan Richter
2006-07-26 7:27 ` Greg KH
2006-07-26 7:24 ` Greg KH
2006-07-25 22:57 ` Keshavamurthy Anil S
2006-07-26 7:22 ` Greg KH
2006-07-26 0:34 ` Stefan Richter
2006-07-26 7:31 ` Greg KH
2006-07-26 11:29 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-07-26 16:16 ` Greg KH
2006-07-26 16:42 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-07-26 16:46 ` Greg KH
2006-07-27 0:02 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2006-07-27 0:20 ` Greg KH
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