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| author | Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com> | 2015-03-31 02:20:05 +0300 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2015-05-20 10:25:24 +0300 |
| commit | f2411da746985e60d4d087f3a43e271c61785927 (patch) | |
| tree | 09b6c3b2abd4774f63e4a0d467e3c70daa52663e /include/linux/module.h | |
| parent | 765230b5f084863183aa8adb3405ab3f32c0b16e (diff) | |
| download | linux-f2411da746985e60d4d087f3a43e271c61785927.tar.xz | |
driver-core: add driver module asynchronous probe support
Some init systems may wish to express the desire to have device drivers
run their probe() code asynchronously. This implements support for this
and allows userspace to request async probe as a preference through a
generic shared device driver module parameter, async_probe.
Implementation for async probe is supported through a module parameter
given that since synchronous probe has been prevalent for years some
userspace might exist which relies on the fact that the device driver
will probe synchronously and the assumption that devices it provides
will be immediately available after this.
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 'include/linux/module.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/module.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/module.h b/include/linux/module.h index c883b86ea964..f46a47d3c0dc 100644 --- a/include/linux/module.h +++ b/include/linux/module.h @@ -257,6 +257,8 @@ struct module { bool sig_ok; #endif + bool async_probe_requested; + /* symbols that will be GPL-only in the near future. */ const struct kernel_symbol *gpl_future_syms; const unsigned long *gpl_future_crcs; |