> That goes back to Rafael's reply (and I agree): > > "Also if the probe has already started, it may still return > -EPROBE_DEFER at any time in theory, so as a rule the dependency is > actually known to be satisfied when the probe has successfully > completed." > > So waiting for the probe to finish is the right behavior/intentional > for fw_devlink. But differs to how things actually work in the driver model. The driver model does not care if a driver has finished probing, you can use a resource as soon as it is registered. Hence this whole problem/discussion. Andrew