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authorCornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>2007-02-05 16:15:25 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2007-04-27 10:57:28 -0700
commit21c7f30b1d3f8a3de3128478daca3ce203fc8733 (patch)
treeff84247ba68f82906182a214273dd330c6d1970f /include/linux/device.h
parent460f7e9a1bde2c74f060f7ce0a308dab4be6a56b (diff)
driver core: per-subsystem multithreaded probing
Make multithreaded probing work per subsystem instead of per driver. It doesn't make much sense to probe the same device for multiple drivers in parallel (after all, only one driver can bind to the device). Instead, create a probing thread for each device that probes the drivers one after another. Also make the decision to use multi-threaded probe per bus instead of per device and adapt the pci code. Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/device.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/device.h3
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/device.h b/include/linux/device.h
index 7f63d4de5c4..eb1fff0b1d2 100644
--- a/include/linux/device.h
+++ b/include/linux/device.h
@@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ struct bus_type {
int (*resume)(struct device * dev);
unsigned int drivers_autoprobe:1;
+ unsigned int multithread_probe:1;
};
extern int __must_check bus_register(struct bus_type * bus);
@@ -139,8 +140,6 @@ 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;
};