On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 11:04:13PM +0800, Huang, Ying wrote:
> >From: Greg KH [mailto:[email protected]]
> >I'm still not convinced that we need to add this kind of complexity to
> >the driver core, instead of just letting the individual driver
> >subsystems do this, if they want to do it.
>
> It may appear not necessary that providing more multithreaded device
> probing in the driver core, but it seems more necessary that providing
> more parallel control in the driver core to make some device probing
> more single-threaded.
>
> There does exist multithreaded device probing in current driver core
> implementation, supposing two devices are hot-plugged at the same time.
No, that is a bus-specific thing, and no bus that I know of supports
that at this time.
> But, many device drivers are written without this taken into account.
That's why no bus does this :)
> I think it may be better to make default device probing process more
> single-threaded in the driver core. The single-thread workqueue or some
> customized version of workqueue like that implemented by my patch can be
> used for this. The parallel control mechanism can be used to implement
> multithreaded device probing in needed subsystems too.
But remember, the individual busses already do this all in a single
thread anyway, nothing is needed in the driver core to do this.
thanks,
greg k-h
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