On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 01:56:35PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote: > E.g. When adding the memory block devices, we know that there won't be a > driver to attach to (as there are no drivers for the "memory" subsystem) > - the bus_probe_device() function that takes the device_lock() could > pretty much be avoided for that case. But burying such special cases > down in core driver code definitely won't make locking related to memory > hotplug easier. You don't have to have a driver for a device if you don't want to, or you can just have a default one for all memory devices if you somehow need it. No reason to not do this if it makes things easier for you. thanks, greg k-h
