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    async: Add cmdline option to specify drivers to be async probed · 1ea61b68
    Feng Tang authored
    Asynchronous driver probing can help much on kernel fastboot, and
    this option can provide a flexible way to optimize and quickly verify
    async driver probe.
    
    Also it will help in below cases:
    * Some driver actually covers several families of HWs, some of which
      could use async probing while others don't. So we can't simply
      turn on the PROBE_PREFER_ASYNCHRONOUS flag in driver, but use this
      cmdline option, like igb driver async patch discussed at
      https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg545986.html
    
    * For SOC (System on Chip) with multiple spi or i2c controllers, most
      of the slave spi/i2c devices will be assigned with fixed controller
      number, while async probing may make those controllers get different
      index for each boot, which prevents those controller drivers to be
      async probed. For platforms not using these spi/i2c slave devices,
      they can use this cmdline option to benefit from the async probing.
    Suggested-by: default avatarAlexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com>
    Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarFeng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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