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. Change-Id: Ic20ee2354b2efdcf3c0d02c407863af559ff86fa 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> Git-commit: f2411da746985e60d4d087f3a43e271c61785927 Git-repo: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git Signed-off-by:
Lingutla Chandrasekhar <clingutla@codeaurora.org>
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