On Wed, 14 May 2014, Greg KH wrote: > > Is it really safe to rely on the device core always probing drivers in > > order of driver registration? > > Yes it is. Okay, good. Do you know if this is documented anywhere? > > If it is then we are okay (at least in this particular case), because > > the hub driver will always be registered before the lvstest driver. > > Good, then there shouldn't be an issue. > > Or just make the lvstest driver have to be "manually" bound to the > device through the bind file in sysfs, don't let the driver > automatically bind to anything. How can we do that? The probe routine doesn't know whether it was called as a result of automatic or manual binding. This was Bjørn's point. Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
