From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dmitry Torokhov Subject: Re: Slow boot due perhaps to locks in mouse and platform system Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:29:55 -0400 Message-ID: <20081014112912.ZZRA012@mailhub.coreip.homeip.net> References: <1223993968942@dmwebmail.dmwebmail.chezphil.org> <20081014104442.ZZRA012@mailhub.coreip.homeip.net> <20081014111236.2495140c@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from an-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.132.242]:60979 "EHLO an-out-0708.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751533AbYJNPaB (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:30:01 -0400 Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id d40so166849and.103 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 2008 08:30:00 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081014111236.2495140c@infradead.org> Sender: linux-input-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Phil Endecott , linux-input , Ingo Molnar On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 11:12:36AM -0400, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:54:36 -0400 > Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 03:19:28PM +0100, Phil Endecott wrote: > > > What can be done about this? Is it unreasonable for the mouse > > > probing to take 2 seconds? Should it not be holding the > > > conflicting lock while it is probing? Does the platform matching > > > code really need to hold the lock when it's just comparing the > > > string names of the device and driver? > > > > > the real thing is to not wait on this while booting; > my fastboot git tree has the patches to fix that part.. > Could you please be more specific? -- Dmitry