Re: [PATCH] drivercore: Add driver probe deferral mechanism

[Kay Sievers]

On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 17:50, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> I wonder if doing this all from a workqueue in the first place is going
> to cause problems as probe isn't normally done this way at all.

Yeah, I would expect unforeseen problems with the async thread too.
It's probably all solvable, but it sounds troublesome to find out if
things go wrong.

We have sync hooks (BUS_NOTIFY_*) where any kind of code can subscribe
to when devices get added or get bound to a driver. Can't the code
that relies on later hookups to already existing devices/bindings not
just plug into that?

Thanks,
Kay
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