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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.