Re: [PATCH v1] driver: base: Add driver filter support

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Aug 05 2021 - 15:12:12 EST


On Thu, Aug 05, 2021 at 11:53:52AM -0700, Kuppuswamy, Sathyanarayanan wrote:
> I am not sure how USB and Thunderbolt "authorzied" model works. But I
> don't think it prevents built-in driver probes during kernel boot right?

Yes it does.

Again Intel created this framework well over a decade ago for busses
that it deemed that it did not want to "trust" to instantly probe
drivers for and made it part of the Wireless USB specification.

Then Intel went and added the same framework to Thunderbolt for the same
reason.

To ignore this work is quite odd, you might want to talk to your
coworkers...

greg k-h