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Deferred driver probing

Deferred driver probing

Posted Aug 5, 2011 13:02 UTC (Fri) by kevinm (guest, #69913)
Parent article: Deferred driver probing

Why can't the ->probe() just succeed anyway, and the driver check at ->open() time if the necessary other devices have deigned to show up to work?


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