Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Apr 2016 09:40:34 +0100 | From | Russell King - ARM Linux <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v7 1/2] drivers: base: add support for registering notifier about deferred probe |
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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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