[PATCH 240/510] staging: spectra: asynchronous init

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh at suse.de
Mon Jan 10 20:39:24 UTC 2011


From: Yong Wang <yong.y.wang at linux.intel.com>

The spectra nand driver takes quite some time to initialize because
it needs to scan the whole nand disk to find the latest block table.
This patch initializes the spectra nand driver asynchronously so that
other things in the kernel can initialize in parallel to the scanning
operation.

Signed-off-by: Yong Wang <yong.y.wang at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at suse.de>
---
 drivers/staging/spectra/ffsport.c |   13 +++++++++----
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/spectra/ffsport.c b/drivers/staging/spectra/ffsport.c
index c6b4a2d..c3849e9 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/spectra/ffsport.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/spectra/ffsport.c
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
 #include <linux/log2.h>
 #include <linux/init.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <linux/async.h>
 
 /**** Helper functions used for Div, Remainder operation on u64 ****/
 
@@ -729,7 +730,7 @@ static void create_sysfs_entry(struct device *dev)
 }
 */
 
-int register_spectra_ftl()
+static void register_spectra_ftl_async(void *unused, async_cookie_t cookie)
 {
 	int i;
 
@@ -738,7 +739,7 @@ int register_spectra_ftl()
 	if (PASS != GLOB_FTL_IdentifyDevice(&IdentifyDeviceData)) {
 		printk(KERN_ERR "Spectra: Unable to Read Flash Device. "
 		       "Aborting\n");
-		return -ENOMEM;
+		return;
 	} else {
 		nand_dbg_print(NAND_DBG_WARN, "In GLOB_SBD_init: "
 			       "Num blocks=%d, pagesperblock=%d, "
@@ -772,15 +773,19 @@ int register_spectra_ftl()
 		       "Spectra: module loaded with major number %d\n",
 		       GLOB_SBD_majornum);
 
-	return PASS;
+	return;
 
 out_blk_register:
 	unregister_blkdev(GLOB_SBD_majornum, GLOB_SBD_NAME);
 out_ftl_flash_register:
 	GLOB_FTL_Cache_Release();
 	printk(KERN_ERR "Spectra: Module load failed.\n");
+}
 
-	return FAIL;
+int register_spectra_ftl()
+{
+	async_schedule(register_spectra_ftl_async, NULL);
+	return 0;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(register_spectra_ftl);
 
-- 
1.7.3.2




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