Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 06:52:24 -0800
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: tom.leiming@gmail.com
Cc: kay.sievers@vrfy.org, greg@kroah.com, cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver core: remove polling for driver_probe_done(v3)
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On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:48:35 +0800
tom.leiming@gmail.com wrote:

> From: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
> 
> This patch adds a function : driver_wait_probe_done,
> which waits on condition of probing done to replace
> polling for driver_probe_done in fs initialization.
> 
> There is no better way to avoid polling for
> driver_probe_done _and_ existence of the root device,
> so we does not replace the driver_probe_done with
> driver_wait_probe_done in such special case.
> 
> Removing polling in fs initialization may lead to
> a faster boot.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>

ok this one will work fine ;)

Reviewed-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>

thanks for fixing this up 
(it will clash with the patch that moves this to one place, but the
same cleanup can be done there)


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