On Wed, 2016-08-31 at 15:10 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 02:34:18PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > It is sometimes useful to know that a device is on the deferred probe > > list rather than, say, not having a driver available. Expose this > > information to user-space. > > What can someone use this for? It's an attribute that for 99.9% of the > time will always be the same value. > > I can see when debugging it might be nice, but what can a user do with > this?
Yes this is mostly for debugging. (Like many of the attributes in sysfs.) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Software Developer, Codethink Ltd.
