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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	CT kernel <linux-kernel@lists.codethink.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver core: Add deferred_probe attribute to devices in sysfs
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2016 15:10:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160831131048.GA32056@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1471354458.1960.9.camel@codethink.co.uk>

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

  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-31 13:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-16 13:34 [PATCH] driver core: Add deferred_probe attribute to devices in sysfs Ben Hutchings
2016-08-31 13:10 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2016-08-31 15:04   ` Ben Hutchings

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