| Date | Fri, 11 Sep 2015 13:17:46 +0100 | From | Mark Brown <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4 20/22] driver core: Allow deferring probes until late init |
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On Mon, Sep 07, 2015 at 02:23:45PM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > Add a field to struct device that instructs the device-driver core to > defer the probe of this device until the late_initcall level. > > By letting all built-in drivers to register before starting to probe, we > can avoid any deferred probes by probing dependencies on demand.
Is this not going to resut in massive churn as we go through and set this flag for a massive proportion of drivers? Could we mitigate this by having a first pass at setting this per subsystem or something so that we get a good proportion of drivers with changes in core code? [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] |