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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0610161108460.7601-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 11:11:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>
cc: Duncan Sands <duncan.sands@...h.u-psud.fr>,
Greg K-H <greg@...ah.com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Patch 3/3] Driver core: Per-subsystem multithreaded probing.
On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> ->probe won't be called if the device is already being removed, but
> that still results in bus->remove being called without a prior ->probe
> (but not drv->probe since dev->driver is not set at that time).
One other thing I forgot to mention... In device_attach(), if dev->driver
is already set upon entry and the call to device_bind_driver() fails,
dev->driver should be set to NULL before returning. We don't want the
device to appear to be bound when in fact it isn't.
Alan Stern
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