linux-kernel - Re: [RFD] Functional dependencies between devices

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Message-ID: <20151031024034.GX28319@sirena.org.uk>
Date:	Sat, 31 Oct 2015 11:40:34 +0900
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>
Cc:	Linux PM list <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>,
	Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
	Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu.vizoso@...labora.com>,
	Thierry Reding <treding@...dia.com>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@...gle.com>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Michael Turquette <mturquette@...libre.com>
Subject: Re: [RFD] Functional dependencies between devices

On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 03:13:09AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Thursday, October 29, 2015 09:15:09 AM Mark Brown wrote:

> > This seems like a good plan to me however I am concerned that only
> > allowing links to be created at device registration time will prove
> > restrictive - it means we're going to ignore anything we figure out
> > later on in the boot sequence.

> That's not the plan, though. :-)

> I'm talking about device registration time or device probe time (for
> dependencies that aren't known at the registration time).

Oh, so I think allowing things to be added at probe time addresses my
concerns - for some reason I'd parsed your mail as talking about
registration time only.

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