Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 Sep 2011 12:00:12 +0100 | From | Mark Brown <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH v3] drivercore: Add driver probe deferral mechanism |
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On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 06:14:10PM -0500, Grant Likely wrote:
> For your question, I still think it is the driver that gets to make > the decision. If it can proceed without a resource, then it should go > ahead and succeed on the probe, and then arrange to either be notified > of new gpio controller (or whatever) registrations, or poll for the > resource to be set up.
Right, I do tend to agree. This is something we'll have to bear in mind when deploying this stuff - drivers that are doing this sort of stuff are going to get surprised.
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