On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 02:57:14PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <[email protected]> > > We'll soon add generic support for asynchronous probe, before > that gets merged lets let drivers annotate if they should never > probe asynchronously. > > Cc: Tejun Heo <[email protected]> > Cc: Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]> > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> > Cc: Doug Thompson <[email protected]> > Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> > Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <[email protected]> > --- > include/linux/device.h | 5 +++++ > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/include/linux/device.h b/include/linux/device.h > index 43d183a..4de6328 100644 > --- a/include/linux/device.h > +++ b/include/linux/device.h > @@ -200,6 +200,10 @@ extern struct klist *bus_get_device_klist(struct > bus_type *bus); > * @owner: The module owner. > * @mod_name: Used for built-in modules. > * @suppress_bind_attrs: Disables bind/unbind via sysfs. > + * @sync_probe: requests probe to be run always be run synchronously even
"be run" repeated in the sentence. > + * if userspace asked us to run asynchronously. Some devices drivers > + * may be known to not work well with async probe, use this to annotate > + * your driver if you know it needs synchronous probe. Maybe something like "Use this to annotate drivers which don't work well with async probe." is better? The formatting seems inconsistent with other comments. Thanks. -- tejun -- 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/
