Re: [PATCH] driver core: Add deferred_probe attribute to devices in sysfs

From	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH] driver core: Add deferred_probe attribute to devices in sysfs
Date	2016-08-31 15:20 +0200
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On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 02:34:18PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> It is sometimes useful to know that a device is on the deferred probe
> list rather than, say, not having a driver available.  Expose this
> information to user-space.

What can someone use this for?  It's an attribute that for 99.9% of the
time will always be the same value.

I can see when debugging it might be nice, but what can a user do with
this?

thanks,

greg k-h

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Re: [PATCH] driver core: Add deferred_probe attribute to devices in  sysfs Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-08-31 15:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] driver core: Add deferred_probe attribute to devices in  sysfs Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk> - 2016-08-31 17:10 +0200

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