Re: post 2.6.28 regression: device_initialize() now sleeps, and mayfail without recovery strategy

[Stefan Richter]

Stefan Richter wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
>> I originally looked at changing this to be at device_add time, but I
>> think there are some code paths that do device_initialize and then do
>> some operations on the device before calling device_add.
> 
> get_device() and put_device() seem to be about the only things that are
> interesting before device_add().
> 
> Don't know if a final put_device() in this situation

...would require dev->p to be present.
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