linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] drivercore: deferral race condition fix

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Message-ID: <20140224014032.GT25940@sirena.org.uk>
Date:	Mon, 24 Feb 2014 10:40:32 +0900
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:	Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@...com>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] drivercore: deferral race condition fix

On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 02:41:31PM +0200, Peter Ujfalusi wrote:

> The proposed solution is to try the deferred queue once more when the last
> driver is asking for deferring and we had drivers probed while this last
> driver was probing.

Greg, this patch doesn't seem to have been applied but it looks like
it's addressing a real issue and seems like a reasonable fix?  Peter's
analysis seems good to me.

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