Re: Two regressions on BYT/T ASUS T100TA 4.12-rc: #2 Keyboard no longer works

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Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Fri, Jun 09, 2017 at 10:21:47AM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
>> Longer-term, we'd ideally make 'generic' driver special and let it attach 
>> as a 'last resort driver' if none of the specific driver picked the device 
>> up during probe. But I don't think our current driver model allows this 
>> easily ... or is there way I am not seeing?
>
> Nope, the driver model does not provide a way for this, sorry, it's been
> a complaint from the very beginning that we don't really know how to
> handle, except to make sure the order of the drivers loaded are the
> priority list, and that's not really a solution at all.

Add a 'priority' field to struct device_driver and sort the list by this
field instead of load order?


Bjørn
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