tree ff84247ba68f82906182a214273dd330c6d1970f
parent 460f7e9a1bde2c74f060f7ce0a308dab4be6a56b
author Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> 1170720925 -0800
committer Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> 1177696648 -0700

driver core: per-subsystem multithreaded probing

Make multithreaded probing work per subsystem instead of per driver.

It doesn't make much sense to probe the same device for multiple drivers in
parallel (after all, only one driver can bind to the device).  Instead, create
a probing thread for each device that probes the drivers one after another. 
Also make the decision to use multi-threaded probe per bus instead of per
device and adapt the pci code.

Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>