Re: [RFC PATCH] Multi-threaded device probing

Arnd Bergmann
2006-07-27T00:02:09Z

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.