Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753354AbbG3Fp1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Jul 2015 01:45:27 -0400 Received: from mga02.intel.com ([134.134.136.20]:32821 "EHLO mga02.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751296AbbG3Fp0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Jul 2015 01:45:26 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.15,575,1432623600"; d="scan'208";a="758146433" From: Alexander Shishkin To: Chunyan Zhang Cc: Mark Brown , Greg Kroah-Hartman , "linux-kernel\@vger.kernel.org" , Mathieu Poirier , peter.lachner@intel.com, norbert.schulz@intel.com, keven.boell@intel.com, yann.fouassier@intel.com, laurent.fert@intel.com, "linux-api\@vger.kernel.org" , Chunyan Zhang Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 01/11] stm class: Introduce an abstraction for System Trace Module devices In-Reply-To: References: <1436177344-16751-1-git-send-email-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> <1436177344-16751-2-git-send-email-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> <877fpjkseh.fsf@ashishki-desk.ger.corp.intel.com> <20150729133529.GI20130@sirena.org.uk> <871tfrkree.fsf@ashishki-desk.ger.corp.intel.com> User-Agent: Notmuch/0.20.2 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/24.5.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 08:45:06 +0300 Message-ID: <87zj2e9p25.fsf@ashishki-desk.ger.corp.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 502 Lines: 15 Chunyan Zhang writes: > If let stm_probe() implement probe deferral, it has to have a global > variable for the later calling of "stm_register_device", because the No, it doesn't. Please read about probe deferral. Regards, -- Alex -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/