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diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/device_link.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/device_link.rst index d6763272e747..5c7178189612 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-api/device_link.rst +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/device_link.rst @@ -59,11 +59,15 @@ device ``->probe`` callback or a boot-time PCI quirk. Another example for an inconsistent state would be a device link that represents a driver presence dependency, yet is added from the consumer's -``->probe`` callback while the supplier hasn't probed yet: Had the driver -core known about the device link earlier, it wouldn't have probed the +``->probe`` callback while the supplier hasn't started to probe yet: Had the +driver core known about the device link earlier, it wouldn't have probed the consumer in the first place. The onus is thus on the consumer to check presence of the supplier after adding the link, and defer probing on -non-presence. +non-presence. [Note that it is valid to create a link from the consumer's +``->probe`` callback while the supplier is still probing, but the consumer must +know that the supplier is functional already at the link creation time (that is +the case, for instance, if the consumer has just acquired some resources that +would not have been available had the supplier not been functional then).] If a device link is added in the ``->probe`` callback of the supplier or consumer driver, it is typically deleted in its ``->remove`` callback for |