Re: [RFC v2 2/6] driver-core: add driver async_probe support

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Fri Sep 05 2014 - 07:27:33 EST


On 09/04, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>
> struct driver_private {
> struct kobject kobj;
> struct klist klist_devices;
> struct klist_node knode_bus;
> struct module_kobject *mkobj;
> + struct driver_attach_work *attach_work;
> struct device_driver *driver;

I am not arguing, just curious...

Are you trying to shrink sizeof(driver_private) ? The code can be simpler
if you just embedd "struct work_struct attach_work" into driver_private,
and you do not need "struct driver_attach_work" or another ->driver pointer
this way.

Oleg.

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