Re: [PATCH 2/2] async: Allow to group the asynced device probings

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Sat, Feb 08, 2014 at 07:05:39PM +0800, falcon@meizu.com wrote:
> From: Wu Zhangjin <falcon@meizu.com>
> 
> [*Note*: NOT applicable, only for comments.]
> 
> This allows to schedule a group of probings in order.
> 
> Usage:
> 
> If the probing of driver2 depends on the probing of driver1, we can put them
> into a group, here put them into a group named domain 1, they will be probed in
> the linking order.
> 
> ...
> 
> static struct platform_driver first_driver = {
>  	.probe = first_driver_probe,
>  	.driver		= {
>  		.name	= "first driver",
> +		.async_probe = 1,
> +		.async_domain = 1,
>  	},
>  };
> 
> ...
> 
> static struct platform_driver second_driver = {
>  	.probe = second_driver_probe,
>  	.driver		= {
>  		.name	= "second_driver",
> +		.async_probe = 1,
> +		.async_domain = 1,
>  	},
>  };
> 
> ...
> 
> With this feature, it is possible to async different class of drivers, for
> example, put all sound drivers into domain 2, put all display/video drivers
> into domain 3, and sensors domain 4, network drivers domain 5 and so forth.

That sounds like a recipie for massive confusion.

Again, what problem is this trying to solve?

greg k-h