Re: [Patch 3/3] Driver core: Per-subsystem multithreaded probing.

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On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, Cornelia Huck wrote:

> ->probe won't be called if the device is already being removed, but
> that still results in bus->remove being called without a prior ->probe
> (but not drv->probe since dev->driver is not set at that time).

One other thing I forgot to mention...  In device_attach(), if dev->driver 
is already set upon entry and the call to device_bind_driver() fails, 
dev->driver should be set to NULL before returning.  We don't want the 
device to appear to be bound when in fact it isn't.

Alan Stern

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