On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 10:36 PM Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tuesday, July 3, 2018 8:50:38 AM CEST Pingfan Liu wrote: > > commit 52cdbdd49853 ("driver core: correct device's shutdown order") > > places an assumption of supplier<-consumer order on the process of probe. > > But it turns out to break down the parent <- child order in some scene. > > E.g in pci, a bridge is enabled by pci core, and behind it, the devices > > have been probed. Then comes the bridge's module, which enables extra > > feature(such as hotplug) on this bridge. > > So what *exactly* does happen in that case? > I saw the shpc_probe() is called on the bridge, although the probing failed on that bare-metal. But if it success, then it will enable the hotplug feature on the bridge. Thanks, Pingfan