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Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 17:38:06 +0000
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivercore: Add driver probe deferral mechanism
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On Mon,  5 Mar 2012 08:47:41 -0700
Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> wrote:

> Allow drivers to report at probe time that they cannot get all the resources
> required by the device, and should be retried at a later time.

Stick my oar in for that as well. We've got several bits of Intel SCU
using code that right now have ugly hacks in them (and generally aren't
upstream) because they must cope with random ordering problems.

Alan