Re: [RFC v1 0/3] driver-core: add asynch module loading support

[Tejun Heo]

On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 07:02:00AM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote:
> So, something like the following.  A couple things to note
> 
> * driver_attach() can never fail but is marked with __must_check.  We
>   prolly should change it to void.
> 
> * Old/weird userspace which depends on insmod to wait for device
>   probing might choke and the new behavior might need to be switched
>   somehow (sysctl, insmod param or whatever).

One more thing.

* Use of ordered workqueue probably isn't necessary and using
  system_unbound_wq should be fine.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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