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Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver core: Add deferred_probe attribute to devices in
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From: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2016 16:04:24 +0100
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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
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