From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: andrew@lunn.ch
Cc: ilial@codeaurora.org, kuba@kernel.org, jiri@mellanox.com,
edumazet@google.com, ap420073@gmail.com,
xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com, maximmi@mellanox.com,
ilia.lin@kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: dev: Add API to check net_dev readiness
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2020 10:32:33 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200727.103233.2024296985848607297.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200726194528.GC1661457@lunn.ch>
From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2020 21:45:28 +0200
> I also have to wonder why a network device driver is being probed the
> subsys_initcall.
This makes me wonder how this interface could even be useful. The
only way to fix the problem is to change when the device is probed,
which would mean changing which initcall it uses. So at run time,
this information can't do much.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-27 17:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-26 19:37 [PATCH] net: dev: Add API to check net_dev readiness Ilia Lin
2020-07-26 19:45 ` Andrew Lunn
2020-07-27 17:32 ` David Miller [this message]
2020-08-04 17:47 ` Ilia Lin
2020-08-04 19:24 ` Andrew Lunn
2020-08-05 10:31 ` Ilia Lin
2020-08-05 13:14 ` Andrew Lunn
2020-08-04 18:42 ` Ilia Lin
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