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+What:          /sys/devices/.../deferred_probe
+Date:          August 2016
+Contact:       Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk>
+Description:
+               The /sys/devices/.../deferred_probe attribute is
+               present for all devices.  If a driver detects during
+               probing a device that a related device is not yet
+               ready, it may defer probing of the first device.  The
+               kernel will retry probing the first device after any
+               other device is successfully probed.  This attribute
+               reads as 1 if probing of this device is currently
+               deferred, or 0 otherwise.
 
 extern struct kset *devices_kset;
 extern void devices_kset_move_last(struct device *dev);
 
+extern struct device_attribute dev_attr_deferred_probe;
+
 #if defined(CONFIG_MODULES) && defined(CONFIG_SYSFS)
 extern void module_add_driver(struct module *mod, struct device_driver *drv);
 extern void module_remove_driver(struct device_driver *drv);
 
                        goto err_remove_dev_groups;
        }
 
+       error = device_create_file(dev, &dev_attr_deferred_probe);
+       if (error)
+               goto err_remove_online;
+
        return 0;
 
+ err_remove_online:
+       device_remove_file(dev, &dev_attr_online);
  err_remove_dev_groups:
        device_remove_groups(dev, dev->groups);
  err_remove_type_groups:
        struct class *class = dev->class;
        const struct device_type *type = dev->type;
 
+       device_remove_file(dev, &dev_attr_deferred_probe);
        device_remove_file(dev, &dev_attr_online);
        device_remove_groups(dev, dev->groups);
 
 
 static LIST_HEAD(deferred_probe_active_list);
 static atomic_t deferred_trigger_count = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
 
+static ssize_t deferred_probe_show(struct device *dev,
+                                  struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
+{
+       bool value;
+
+       mutex_lock(&deferred_probe_mutex);
+       value = !list_empty(&dev->p->deferred_probe);
+       mutex_unlock(&deferred_probe_mutex);
+
+       return sprintf(buf, "%d\n", value);
+}
+DEVICE_ATTR_RO(deferred_probe);
+
 /*
  * In some cases, like suspend to RAM or hibernation, It might be reasonable
  * to prohibit probing of devices as it could be unsafe.