Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755371AbYC2IF2 (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Mar 2008 04:05:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752940AbYC2IFE (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Mar 2008 04:05:04 -0400 Received: from gateway.drzeus.cx ([85.8.24.16]:53561 "EHLO smtp.drzeus.cx" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752728AbYC2IFA (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Mar 2008 04:05:00 -0400 Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 09:04:34 +0100 From: Pierre Ossman To: "Tomas Winkler" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, benzizbit@gmail.com Subject: Re: SDIO: IO-Ready Bit Message-ID: <20080329090434.7bfb7509@mjolnir.drzeus.cx> In-Reply-To: <1ba2fa240803240741n5bf042c2j4aaa4d2f70cf8ef@mail.gmail.com> References: <1ba2fa240803180400y1d7a2740t2c21b8b73a755016@mail.gmail.com> <20080318123325.0843b854@mjolnir.drzeus.cx> <1ba2fa240803181043v511df0b6tbe43174feb2f7537@mail.gmail.com> <20080318192018.1815fd57@mjolnir.drzeus.cx> <1ba2fa240803221510n8d5800ft32e0ffa179542aba@mail.gmail.com> <20080324145352.6262788b@mjolnir.drzeus.cx> <1ba2fa240803240741n5bf042c2j4aaa4d2f70cf8ef@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.3.1 (GTK+ 2.12.9; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Face: 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 X-Face: @{|$W51qEixc&6}dq_38NM^&.vv|'{O)ae?DMZ1%VYxuhN2}5VpQ!'gx[{V+8Xw'+cV5*491_)-SU2YT8s@4`H;@:ELS'/P(@.JxxJi/C8mG0H#A^R X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1800 Lines: 51 This is a MIME-formatted message. If you see this text it means that your E-mail software does not support MIME-formatted messages. --=_hera.drzeus.cx-11861-1206777897-0001-2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:41:25 +0200 "Tomas Winkler" wrote: >=20 > Anyhow I've seen that concept of parallel probe is not so new. It was > in 2.6.18 and removed in 2.619. > Probably different approach, maybe more would be adding a parallel > initial function. > Probe will just register to the bus and relevant subsystem, it will be fa= st. > Optional Initialization function will run after probe in different > thread, this would be the place for running FW download. > Device won't be considered initialized till this function haven't > completed or is not implemented. >=20 I would suspect that would just slow things down in most cases. Most busses have shared bandwidth, so letting each device take turns is usually faster than a thundering herd. Feel free to make your case to the device core maintainers though. Rgds Pierre --=_hera.drzeus.cx-11861-1206777897-0001-2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkft+BUACgkQ7b8eESbyJLg+xQCfazhtoFd0vs77EBBtwedBIYrK zHgAniojt8A1oiGAk27F9wJp7seZV9V0 =Hfut -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=_hera.drzeus.cx-11861-1206777897-0001-2-- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/