From: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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 16:04:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1472655864.28694.6.camel@codethink.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160831131048.GA32056@kroah.com>
On Wed, 2016-08-31 at 15:10 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 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?
Yes this is mostly for debugging. (Like many of the attributes in
sysfs.)
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
Software Developer, Codethink Ltd.
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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
2016-08-31 15:04 ` Ben Hutchings [this message]
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