On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 05:38:47PM +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > > I Have A Great Idea(tm) and would like to describe it concisely to see > > if anyone likes it and hopefully hasn't thought of it before so i'm not > > consuming people's time. The idea is: parallel device initialisation of > > built-in modules, to reduce kernel boot time. > > Have you looked at CONFIG_PCI_MULTITHREAD_PROBE which is already present > in recent kernels? ah _ha_. thank you!
honestly? no - because the small devices i'm compiling for don't have a pci bus, ha ha :) but seriously - thank you for pointing that out, i'll definitely investigate it. l. -- -- lkcl.net - mad free software computer person, visionary and poet. -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
