From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751972AbdCPI23 (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Mar 2017 04:28:29 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:59506 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751874AbdCPI2T (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Mar 2017 04:28:19 -0400 Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 17:28:04 +0900 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Lucas Stach Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel@pengutronix.de, patchwork-lst@pengutronix.de Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver core: add devices to deferred probe list when unbinding consumers Message-ID: <20170316082804.GA24043@kroah.com> References: <20170308115041.5219-1-l.stach@pengutronix.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170308115041.5219-1-l.stach@pengutronix.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.8.0 (2017-02-23) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 12:50:41PM +0100, Lucas Stach wrote: > When a device is unbound due to the provider of one of the resources going > away, add it to the deferred probe list. This way the consumer device > driver gets a chance to rebind itself if the provider is rebound later on. Ick, no, if someone unbinds the driver, it's gone, don't try to keep things around. Wasn't this rejected previously? thanks, greg k-h