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Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2016 15:10:48 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver core: Add deferred_probe attribute to devices in
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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