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From: Bill Gatliff <bgat@billgatliff•com>
To: Linux/PPC Development <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org>,
	linux-embedded <linux-embedded@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: A better way to sequence driver initialization?
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2010 22:59:05 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BBFF789.3030201@billgatliff.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BBFF66D.7020206@billgatliff.com>

Bill Gatliff wrote:
> Maybe there are fewer places that would need wait queues than I
> originally thought!  At least for drivers that use the device API,
> kset_find_obj() might be the only place that needs to wait until a
> device or bus appears.

... and kset_register() might be the only place that calls
wake_up_interruptible().  Wow.


b.g.

-- 
Bill Gatliff
bgat@billgatliff•com

  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-10  3:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-09 19:23 A better way to sequence driver initialization? Bill Gatliff
2010-04-10  3:54 ` Bill Gatliff
2010-04-10  3:59   ` Bill Gatliff [this message]
2010-04-10  4:19     ` Bill Gatliff
2010-04-10  5:29 ` Grant Likely
2010-04-10 13:56   ` Bill Gatliff
2010-04-10  8:53 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-04-10 13:35   ` Bill Gatliff
2010-04-10 23:39     ` Paul Mundt
2010-04-10 23:47       ` Grant Likely
2010-04-11  1:33         ` Bill Gatliff
2010-04-11  1:47           ` Paul Mundt
2010-04-11  3:30             ` Bill Gatliff
2010-04-11  1:31       ` Bill Gatliff
2010-04-11  7:26         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-04-11  7:18       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-04-11  7:15     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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