Hi!

> >> Is this always the case? In the R-Car VIN driver I register the video 
> >> devices using video_register_device() in the complete handler. Am I 
> >> doing things wrong in that driver? I had a patch where I moved the 
> >> video_register_device() call to probe time but it got shoot down in 
> >> review and was dropped.
> > 
> > I don't think the current implementation is wrong, it's just different
> > from other drivers; there's really no requirement regarding this AFAIU.
> > It's one of the things where no attention has been paid I presume.
> 
> It actually is a requirement: when a device node appears applications can
> reasonably expect to have a fully functioning device. True for any device
> node. You don't want to have to wait until some unspecified time before
> the full functionality is there.

Well... /dev/sdb appears, but you still get -ENOMEDIA before user
presses "Turn on USB storage" button on android phone.

So I agree it is not desirable, but it sometimes happens.

									Pavel

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