Re: [Patch 3/3] Driver core: Per-subsystem multithreaded probing.

[Alan Stern]

On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, Duncan Sands wrote:

> > That's not quite true.  You could acquire dev->parent->sem always, just to
> > be certain.  However USB shouldn't use this form of multithreaded probing
> > in any case; it should instead use multiple threads for khubd.
> 
> Is anyone working on this (multiple threads for khubd)?

Not as far as I know.  It should be trivial, though.  Just start several 
threads instead of only one during initialization, and stop them all 
during cleanup.  And have the threads use a wait queue instead of calling
wait_event_interruptible().

Alan Stern

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