linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drivercore: Add driver probe deferral mechanism

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Date:	Mon, 5 Mar 2012 21:28:42 +0000
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>, Dilan Lee <dilee@...dia.com>,
	Manjunath GKondaiah <manjunath.gkondaiah@...aro.org>,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivercore: Add driver probe deferral mechanism

On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 01:24:42PM -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:

> Or, as this really is a bus-specific thing, have you converted any
> busses to use it?  If so, I'd like to take that patch at the same time,
> I'm leary of infrastructure changes without any users.

It's not bus specific, it's more subsystem and/or driver specific.
There was a patch to the regulator core which would add at least one
user.

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