[PATCH 1/3] driver core: Add API to wait for deferred probe to complete during init

Ming Lei tom.leiming at gmail.com
Thu May 9 10:32:04 EDT 2013


On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Saravana Kannan <skannan at codeaurora.org> wrote:
> Kernel framework (Eg: regulator, clock, etc) might want to do some clean up
> work (Eg: turn off unclaimed resources) after all devices are done probing
> during kernel init. Before deferred probing was introduced, this was

Generally, system resources should be configured as disabled
at default, and for drivers, the correct usage should be only requesting
and enabling the resources just in need, then the sort of 'cleanup' things
can be avoided.


Thanks,
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Ming Lei



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