On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > To answer your specific question, yes, I do think drivers that are > statically built in probably should be registered before devices are > enumerated. That way, the boot-time case is more similar to the > hot-add case. > > Obviously, for drivers that can be modules, the reverse must work as > well (enumerate devices, then load and register the driver). And then > the other order (register driver, then enumerate device) must also > work so future hot-adds of the same device type work. so you will have to handle two paths instead one. current booting path sequence are tested more than hot add path. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html