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dell-wmi and dell-smbios-wmi are dependent upon dell-wmi-descriptor finishing probe successfully to probe themselves. Currently if dell-wmi-descriptor fails probing in a non-recoverable way (such as invalid header) dell-wmi and dell-smbios-wmi will continue to try to redo probing due to deferred probing. To solve this have the dependent drivers query the dell-wmi-descriptor driver whether the descriptor has been determined valid. The possible results are: -ENODEV: Descriptor GUID missing from WMI bus -EPROBE_DEFER: Descriptor not yet probed, dependent driver should wait and use deferred probing < 0: Descriptor probed, invalid. Dependent driver should return an error. 0: Successful descriptor probe, dependent driver can continue Successful descriptor probe still doesn't mean that the descriptor driver is necessarily bound at the time of initialization of dependent driver. Userspace can unbind the driver, so all methods used from driver should still be verified to return success values otherwise deferred probing be used. Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@dell.com> Reviewed-by: Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Darren Hart (VMware) <dvhart@infradead.org> |
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Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.