Re: [PATCH] driver core: Add deferred_probe attribute to devices in sysfs

2016-08-31 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2016-08-31 at 15:10 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > 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-spac

Re: [PATCH] driver core: Add deferred_probe attribute to devices in sysfs

2016-08-31 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
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%

[PATCH] driver core: Add deferred_probe attribute to devices in sysfs

2016-08-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
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. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-deferred_probe | 12 drivers/base/base.h