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From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: How to correctly load a driver without device tree?
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 21:31:12 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180620123112.GA7358@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <578ab0bd-b8e1-8270-bc04-dc12cf6f8ddb@163.com>

On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 04:30:40PM +0800, kipade wrote:
> That's a usb host driver. As I know, the whole usb subsystem
> initialization would take up to 2 seconds while booting. In
> another word, that will make the system booting time more
> longer. So, I have to build all the usb driver as module and
> insert them latter, when the system was usable.

Then use async probing and/or deferred probing.  Or even better yet, fix
the driver to not wait 2 seconds when booting, that should not happen.

good luck!

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-06-20 12:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-20  6:36 How to correctly load a driver without device tree? kipade
2018-06-20  8:01 ` Greg KH
2018-06-20  8:30   ` kipade
2018-06-20  8:58     ` Gajjar Akash
2018-06-21  0:31       ` kipade
2018-06-20 12:31     ` Greg KH [this message]
2018-06-21  0:33       ` kipade

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