From: joe@perches.com (Joe Perches)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH v3] drivercore: Add driver probe deferral mechanism
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 11:58:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1316717930.21302.11.camel@Joe-Laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110922184614.25419.84606.stgit@ponder>
On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 12:51 -0600, Grant Likely wrote:
> Allow drivers to report at probe time that they cannot get all the resources
> required by the device, and should be retried at a later time.
[]
> I would appreciate
> any feedback.
trivia:
> diff --git a/drivers/base/dd.c b/drivers/base/dd.c
[]
> +static void driver_deferred_probe_add(struct device *dev)
> +{
> + mutex_lock(&deferred_probe_mutex);
> + if (list_empty(&dev->deferred_probe)) {
> + dev_dbg(dev, "Added to deferred list\n");
These messages might be more intelligible as
"Added to deferred probe list\n"
> +void driver_deferred_probe_del(struct device *dev)
> +{
> + mutex_lock(&deferred_probe_mutex);
> + if (!list_empty(&dev->deferred_probe)) {
> + dev_dbg(dev, "Removed from deferred list\n");
"Removed from deferred probe list\n"
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-22 18:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-22 18:51 [RFC PATCH v3] drivercore: Add driver probe deferral mechanism Grant Likely
2011-09-22 18:58 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2011-09-22 20:29 ` Alan Cox
2011-09-22 21:19 ` Grant Likely
2011-09-23 17:50 ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
2011-09-23 23:18 ` Grant Likely
[not found] ` <4E7BA661.7070903@cavium.com>
2011-09-22 22:47 ` Alan Cox
2011-09-23 5:02 ` Grant Likely
2011-09-23 16:55 ` David Daney
2011-09-26 14:16 ` Mark Brown
2011-09-26 15:12 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-09-26 15:26 ` Mark Brown
2011-09-26 15:48 ` Grant Likely
2011-09-27 13:50 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-09-27 21:08 ` Grant Likely
2011-09-27 22:13 ` Mark Brown
2011-09-28 13:04 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-09-28 13:20 ` Mark Brown
2011-09-28 23:14 ` Grant Likely
2011-09-29 11:00 ` Mark Brown
2011-10-03 23:02 ` Kevin Hilman
2011-10-04 15:52 ` Grant Likely
2011-10-04 14:51 ` G, Manjunath Kondaiah
2011-10-04 15:58 ` Grant Likely
2011-10-04 18:35 ` G, Manjunath Kondaiah
2011-10-04 23:35 ` Grant Likely
2011-10-07 3:31 ` G, Manjunath Kondaiah
2011-10-11 20:47 ` Andrew Morton
[not found] ` <4E94B01D.2050402@cavium.com>
2011-10-13 4:19 ` Grant Likely
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