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authorLuis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>2015-03-31 02:20:06 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2015-05-20 10:25:25 +0300
commitd173a137c5bd95ee29d02705e5fa8890ef149718 (patch)
treec900140a59a822192090d8bded8a127316b8c556 /drivers/base
parentf2411da746985e60d4d087f3a43e271c61785927 (diff)
downloadlinux-d173a137c5bd95ee29d02705e5fa8890ef149718.tar.xz
driver-core: enable drivers to opt-out of async probe
There are drivers that can not be probed asynchronously. One such group is platform drivers registered with platform_driver_probe(), which expects driver's probe routine be discarded after the driver has been registered and initial binding attempt executed. Also platform_driver_probe() an error when no devices were bound to the driver, allowing failing to load such driver module altogether. Other drivers do not work well with asynchronous probing because of driver bug or not optimal driver organization. To allow using such drivers even when user requests asynchronous probing as default boot strategy, let's allow them to opt out. Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/base')
-rw-r--r--drivers/base/dd.c14
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/dd.c b/drivers/base/dd.c
index 7a2fa5dcead7..39292535c74e 100644
--- a/drivers/base/dd.c
+++ b/drivers/base/dd.c
@@ -419,13 +419,19 @@ int driver_probe_device(struct device_driver *drv, struct device *dev)
bool driver_allows_async_probing(struct device_driver *drv)
{
- if (drv->probe_type == PROBE_PREFER_ASYNCHRONOUS)
+ switch (drv->probe_type) {
+ case PROBE_PREFER_ASYNCHRONOUS:
return true;
- if (drv->owner && drv->owner->async_probe_requested)
- return true;
+ case PROBE_FORCE_SYNCHRONOUS:
+ return false;
+
+ default:
+ if (drv->owner && drv->owner->async_probe_requested)
+ return true;
- return false;
+ return false;
+ }
}
struct device_attach_data {