On Sun, Jan 19, 2025 at 08:22:52PM -0700, Alex Williamson wrote: > On second thought, I guess a vfio-pci variant driver can't > automatically bind to a device, whether statically built or not, so > maybe this isn't a concern. I'm not sure if there are other concerns > with busy waiting for up to 30s at driver probe. Thanks, It is not entirely abnormal. mlx5 has a timeout while it pushes its first command and on the failure path it is long > 30s IIRC.. Drivers that take a couple of seconds to complete probe are not unusual. Jason