Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 Sep 2021 22:44:48 +0300 | From | Vladimir Oltean <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] fw_devlink bug fixes |
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On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 07:30:04PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > It fixes the real problem where drivers were making the wrong assumption > that if they registered a device, it would be instantly bound to a > driver. Drivers that did this were getting lucky, as this was never a > guarantee of the driver core (think about if you enabled async > probing, and the mess with the bus specific locks that should be > preventing much of this)
Since commit d173a137c5bd ("driver-core: enable drivers to opt-out of async probe") it is possible to opt out of async probing, and PHY drivers do opt out of it, at the time of writing.
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