Grant Likely wrote: > On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Paul Mundt <[email protected]> wrote: > >> In cases where you can specifically note that dependencies, doing so will >> save you a world of pain. Despite that, it's simply not possible to do >> this as a free-for-all. Devices or busses that can tolerate multi-threaded >> probing need to be converted over one at a time, but even then you still >> need the dependency tracking for those that depend on link order today. >>
Who's to say a function like gpio_request_wait_for_it(GPIO_NUMBER, "dependent-driver") isn't the way to do the dependency tracking? I can't even implement that without a context that can sleep... b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [email protected] _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
