From: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>,
Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@samsung.com>,
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 1/2] drivers: base: add support for registering notifier about deferred probe
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 09:40:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160414084034.GR19428@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <570F4886.20203@samsung.com>
On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 09:36:38AM +0200, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> This CID/PID reading has to be done during device registration time because
> of the already deployed userspace ABI. CID/PID values are reported to
> userspace, which might rely on them to load proper driver modules.
There is no "might" about it - the CID/PID are the way drivers get
matched, and it's what is in the module device tables exported for
modprobe/udev to use.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-14 8:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-13 9:35 [PATCH v7 0/2] AMBA: add complete support for power domains Marek Szyprowski
2016-04-13 9:35 ` [PATCH v7 1/2] drivers: base: add support for registering notifier about deferred probe Marek Szyprowski
2016-04-13 14:12 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2016-04-14 7:36 ` Marek Szyprowski
2016-04-14 8:40 ` Russell King - ARM Linux [this message]
2016-04-14 21:17 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2016-04-14 21:33 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2016-04-14 21:51 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2016-04-13 9:36 ` [PATCH v7 2/2] drivers: amba: properly handle devices with power domains Marek Szyprowski
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