Re: [PATCH v7 1/2] drivers: base: add support for registering notifier about deferred probe

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 09:36:38AM +0200, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> This CID/PID reading has to be done during device registration time because
> of the already deployed userspace ABI. CID/PID values are reported to
> userspace, which might rely on them to load proper driver modules.

There is no "might" about it - the CID/PID are the way drivers get
matched, and it's what is in the module device tables exported for
modprobe/udev to use.

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