During probe, both sensor buffers need to be queried to initialize the hwmon channels. This might be slow on some machines, causing a unnecessary delay during boot. Mark the driver with PROBE_PREFER_ASYNCHRONOUS so that it can be probed asynchronously. Signed-off-by: Armin Wolf <W_Armin@xxxxxx> --- drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-wmi-ddv.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-wmi-ddv.c b/drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-wmi-ddv.c index d81dc4dd93e3..d547c9d09725 100644 --- a/drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-wmi-ddv.c +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-wmi-ddv.c @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ #include <linux/acpi.h> #include <linux/debugfs.h> #include <linux/device.h> +#include <linux/device/driver.h> #include <linux/dev_printk.h> #include <linux/errno.h> #include <linux/kconfig.h> @@ -869,6 +870,7 @@ MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(wmi, dell_wmi_ddv_id_table); static struct wmi_driver dell_wmi_ddv_driver = { .driver = { .name = DRIVER_NAME, + .probe_type = PROBE_PREFER_ASYNCHRONOUS, .pm = pm_sleep_ptr(&dell_wmi_ddv_dev_pm_ops), }, .id_table = dell_wmi_ddv_id_table, -- 2.30.2