[PATCH] acpi: Initialize the batter driver asynchronous

[Arjan van de Ven]

The battery driver tends to take quite some time to initialize (100ms-300ms
is quite typical).
This patch initializes the batter driver asynchronously, so that other
things in the kernel can initialize in parallel to this 300 msec.

As part of this, the batter driver had to move to the back of the acpi init
order (hence the Makefile change). Without this move, the next ACPI driver
would just block on the ACPI/devicee layer semaphores until the battery driver was
done anyway, not gaining any boot time.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/acpi/Makefile  |    2 +-
 drivers/acpi/battery.c |   15 +++++++++++----
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/Makefile b/drivers/acpi/Makefile
index d80f4cc..84f182e 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/acpi/Makefile
@@ -37,7 +37,6 @@ obj-y				+= scan.o
 # Keep EC driver first. Initialization of others depend on it.
 obj-y				+= ec.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_ACPI_AC) 		+= ac.o
-obj-$(CONFIG_ACPI_BATTERY)	+= battery.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_ACPI_BUTTON)	+= button.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_ACPI_FAN)		+= fan.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_ACPI_DOCK)		+= dock.o
@@ -57,5 +56,6 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG)	+= debug.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_ACPI_NUMA)		+= numa.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_ACPI_HOTPLUG_MEMORY)	+= acpi_memhotplug.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS_POWER)	+= cm_sbs.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_ACPI_BATTERY)	+= battery.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_ACPI_SBS)		+= sbshc.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_ACPI_SBS)		+= sbs.o
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/battery.c b/drivers/acpi/battery.c
index 65132f9..1211799 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/battery.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/battery.c
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
 #include <linux/init.h>
 #include <linux/types.h>
 #include <linux/jiffies.h>
+#include <linux/async.h>
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS_POWER
 #include <linux/proc_fs.h>
@@ -878,21 +879,27 @@ static struct acpi_driver acpi_battery_driver = {
 		},
 };
 
-static int __init acpi_battery_init(void)
+static void __init acpi_battery_init_async(void *unused, async_cookie_t cookie)
 {
 	if (acpi_disabled)
-		return -ENODEV;
+		return;
 #ifdef CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS_POWER
 	acpi_battery_dir = acpi_lock_battery_dir();
 	if (!acpi_battery_dir)
-		return -ENODEV;
+		return;
 #endif
 	if (acpi_bus_register_driver(&acpi_battery_driver) < 0) {
 #ifdef CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS_POWER
 		acpi_unlock_battery_dir(acpi_battery_dir);
 #endif
-		return -ENODEV;
+		return;
 	}
+	return;
+}
+
+static int __init acpi_battery_init(void)
+{
+	async_schedule(acpi_battery_init_async, NULL);
 	return 0;
 }
 
-- 
1.6.0.6



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