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Subject: Re: pci: add to global list before sysfs?
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 18:55 +0200, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> > Why not just create a thread in your driver, or timer, and sleep
> until
> > you see the other devices?  If after a certian time you never do,
> then
> > bail out.
> > 
> > That should work properly for you for both cases (startup and
> loading
> > later.)
> > 

You don't need a timer. You can just use the notifier mechanism I added
a while ago that should call you on device addition and removal on the
bus type you are interested in.

Ben.