Re: [PATCH v2 7/7] driver-core: add preferred async probe option for built-in and modules

Tejun Heo
2014-10-06T20:19:26Z

Hello, Luis.

The patchset generally looks good to me. Please feel free to add

Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

A question below.

On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 02:44:43PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> + bus.enable_kern_async=1 [KNL]
> + This tells the kernel userspace has been vetted for
> + asynchronous probe support and can listen to the device
> + driver prefer_async_probe flag for both built-in device
> + drivers and modules.

Do we intend to keep this param permanently? Isn't this more of a
temp tool to be used during development? If so, maybe we should make
that clear with __DEVEL__ too?

Thanks.

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tejun