From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760901AbZBESQH (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Feb 2009 13:16:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760824AbZBESPn (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Feb 2009 13:15:43 -0500 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:55755 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755627AbZBESPl (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Feb 2009 13:15:41 -0500 Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 10:08:56 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: tom.leiming@gmail.com, kay.sievers@vrfy.org, cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver core: remove polling for driver_probe_done(v3) Message-ID: <20090205180856.GA20805@kroah.com> References: <1233319715-4877-1-git-send-email-tom.leiming@gmail.com> <20090130065224.47729f41@infradead.org> <20090204230851.GF18484@kroah.com> <20090204170858.2d07b546@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090204170858.2d07b546@infradead.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 05:08:58PM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 15:08:51 -0800 > Greg KH wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 06:52:24AM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:48:35 +0800 > > > tom.leiming@gmail.com wrote: > > > > > > > From: Ming Lei > > > > > > > > This patch adds a function : driver_wait_probe_done, > > > > which waits on condition of probing done to replace > > > > polling for driver_probe_done in fs initialization. > > > > > > > > There is no better way to avoid polling for > > > > driver_probe_done _and_ existence of the root device, > > > > so we does not replace the driver_probe_done with > > > > driver_wait_probe_done in such special case. > > > > > > > > Removing polling in fs initialization may lead to > > > > a faster boot. > > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Ming Lei > > > > > > ok this one will work fine ;) > > > > > > Reviewed-by: Arjan van de Ven > > > > > > thanks for fixing this up > > > (it will clash with the patch that moves this to one place, but the > > > same cleanup can be done there) > > > > What patch is that? Should i be taking this? Or are they in some > > other tree? > > it's the suspend-resume regression fixes that either you already have > or that raphael sent to you Hm, ok, I don't see any left in my tree, or queue, so perhaps someone might want to resend them to me? thanks, greg k-h