RE: [PATCH] RFC: AMBA bus discardable probe() function

[Linus WALLEIJ]

[Greg]
> [Me]
> > +	spin_lock(&amba_bustype.p->klist_drivers.k_lock);
> 
> Ick, nope, you can't do this, sorry.  That's a "private" structure for
> a reason.

Yeah I get it, but in the platform bus case what's that traversal of 
the klists actually for? I didn't get it, and was guessing that it
was considering the case where devices spawn new devices.

> So what's the real driving force here, just saving a few hundred bytes
> after booting?  Or something else?

A few thousand actually according to Russells measurements.
And no I don't think it's worth it unless someone else challenge this...

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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