driver core: Add support for linking devices during device addition
When devices are added, the bus might want to create device links to track functional dependencies between supplier and consumer devices. This tracking of supplier-consumer relationship allows optimizing device probe order and tracking whether all consumers of a supplier are active. The add_links bus callback is added to support this. However, when consumer devices are added, they might not have a supplier device to link to despite needing mandatory resources/functionality from one or more suppliers. A waiting_for_suppliers list is created to track such consumers and retry linking them when new devices get added. Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190731221721.187713-2-saravanak@google.comSigned-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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