linux/init
Greg Kroah-Hartman d779249ed4 Driver Core: add ability for drivers to do a threaded probe
This adds the infrastructure for drivers to do a threaded probe, and
waits at init time for all currently outstanding probes to complete.

A new kernel thread will be created when the probe() function for the
driver is called, if the multithread_probe bit is set in the driver
saying it can support this kind of operation.

I have tested this with USB and PCI, and it works, and shaves off a lot
of time in the boot process, but there are issues with finding root boot
disks, and some USB drivers assume that this can never happen, so it is
currently not enabled for any bus type.  Individual drivers can enable
this right now if they wish, and bus authors can selectivly turn it on
as well, once they determine that their subsystem will work properly
with it.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-09-25 21:08:40 -07:00
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calibrate.c [PATCH] Platform SMIs and their interferance with tsc based delay calibration 2005-06-23 09:45:08 -07:00
do_mounts_initrd.c [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs from the init code 2006-06-26 12:25:05 -07:00
do_mounts_md.c [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs from the init code 2006-06-26 12:25:05 -07:00
do_mounts_rd.c [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs from the init code 2006-06-26 12:25:05 -07:00
do_mounts.c Driver Core: add ability for drivers to do a threaded probe 2006-09-25 21:08:40 -07:00
do_mounts.h [PATCH] devfs: Remove the devfs_fs_kernel.h file from the tree 2006-06-26 12:25:08 -07:00
initramfs.c [PATCH] initramfs overwrite fix 2006-06-26 09:58:40 -07:00
Kconfig [PATCH] Kconfig: move CONFIG_EMBEDDED options to submenu 2006-09-16 12:54:32 -07:00
main.c [PATCH] per-task-delay-accounting: taskstats interface 2006-07-14 21:53:56 -07:00
Makefile [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs from the init code 2006-06-26 12:25:05 -07:00
version.c kbuild: introduce utsrelease.h 2006-07-03 23:30:54 +02:00