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From: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
To: tom.leiming@gmail.com
Cc: kay.sievers@vrfy.org, greg@kroah.com, arjan@infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver core: remove polling for driver_probe_done(v2)
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:05:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090130110555.116f747a@gondolin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1233282702-6274-1-git-send-email-tom.leiming@gmail.com>

On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 10:31:42 +0800,
tom.leiming@gmail.com wrote:


>  /**
> + * driver_wait_probe_done_and_dev_appear
> + * wait until the probe sequence is finished _and_ the dev @name appears.
> + *
> + */
> +void driver_wait_probe_done_and_dev_appear(char *name)
> +{
> +	pr_debug("%s: probe_count = %d\n", __func__,
> +		 atomic_read(&probe_count));
> +
> +	wait_event(probe_waitqueue, (atomic_read(&probe_count) == 0) &&
> +		  name_to_dev_t(name));

probe_waitqueue is only woken at the end of really_probe(), not when
whatever needs to be done to make the device available is done...

> +}
> +/**
>   * driver_probe_device - attempt to bind device & driver together
>   * @drv: driver to bind a device to
>   * @dev: device to try to bind to the driver

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-01-30 10:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-30  2:31 [PATCH] driver core: remove polling for driver_probe_done(v2) tom.leiming
2009-01-30  5:04 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-30  9:59   ` Ming Lei
2009-01-30 10:05 ` Cornelia Huck [this message]
2009-01-30 10:17   ` Ming Lei
2009-01-30 10:30     ` Cornelia Huck
2009-01-30 10:51       ` Ming Lei

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