Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:56:01 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
       Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl>,
       Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       mingo@elte.hu, Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>,
       USB list <linux-usb@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 5/3] fastboot: sync the async execution before
	late_initcall and move level 6s (sync) first
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On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 07:29:21PM +0100, Simon Arlott wrote:
>>> There is nothing else to run between 1-2 and 3, so there is no 
>>> opportunity
>>> to initialise devices in the background and usblp_init blocks for a 
>>> while.
>> If it were a module then it would block in a separate thread and wouldn't 
>> hold up the main init process.
>
> Right, but I want to compile all of this into the kernel.

Why?  It sounds like a trivial solution for you is to actually use
modules.  Why go through a lot of extra work to solve something in a
different way that is already solved for you?

Who is imposing the "no modules allowed" rule on you, and why was it
made?

thanks,

greg k-h
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