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diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/device_link.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/device_link.rst index ae1e3d0394b0..bc2d89af88ce 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-api/device_link.rst +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/device_link.rst @@ -78,8 +78,8 @@ typically deleted in its ``->remove`` callback for symmetry. That way, if the driver is compiled as a module, the device link is added on module load and orderly deleted on unload. The same restrictions that apply to device link addition (e.g. exclusion of a parallel suspend/resume transition) apply equally -to deletion. Device links with ``DL_FLAG_STATELESS`` unset (i.e. managed -device links) are deleted automatically by the driver core. +to deletion. Device links managed by the driver core are deleted automatically +by it. Several flags may be specified on device link addition, two of which have already been mentioned above: ``DL_FLAG_STATELESS`` to express that no @@ -281,7 +281,8 @@ State machine :c:func:`driver_bound()`.) * Before a consumer device is probed, presence of supplier drivers is - verified by checking that links to suppliers are in ``DL_STATE_AVAILABLE`` + verified by checking the consumer device is not in the wait_for_suppliers + list and by checking that links to suppliers are in ``DL_STATE_AVAILABLE`` state. The state of the links is updated to ``DL_STATE_CONSUMER_PROBE``. (Call to :c:func:`device_links_check_suppliers()` from :c:func:`really_probe()`.) |
