linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: ipconfig: Wait for deferred device probes

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Message-Id: <20191120.124024.1945106179289526336.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Wed, 20 Nov 2019 12:40:24 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     tbogendoerfer@...e.de
Cc:     kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: ipconfig: Wait for deferred device probes

From: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tbogendoerfer@...e.de>
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 17:02:36 +0100

> If network device drives are using deferred probing, it was possible
> that waiting for devices to show up in ipconfig was already over,
> when the device eventually showed up. By calling wait_for_device_probe()
> we now make sure deferred probing is done before checking for available
> devices.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tbogendoerfer@...e.de>
 ...
> +		/* make sure deferred device probes are finished */
> +		wait_for_device_probe();
> +

So much nicer, right? :-)

Applied.