[RFC 02/15] drivers/base: add restrack framework

[Mark Brown]

On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 09:28:41AM +0100, Andrzej Hajda wrote:
> On 12/12/2014 05:52 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 04:48:20PM +0100, Andrzej Hajda wrote:

> > I don't know about anyone else but I'm having a hard time reading the
> > restrack name, it looks like a misspelling of restack to me.

> Any alternative names?

Well, even just res_track would help.

> I will move the code for provider matching to frameworks,
> so it will be easy to add just dev_info after every failed attempt
> of getting resource, including deferring. This is the simplest solution
> and it should be similar in verbosity to deferred probing.

> Maybe other solution is to provide debug_fs (or device) attribute showing
> restrack status per device.

I think both are useful - it's often helpful to have a listing of what
resources have actually been registered, for example to help spot typos.
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