On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 03:25:27PM +0100, Hannes Reinecke wrote:

> - Asynchronous probing
>   Currently, the driver model has the simple match/probe mechanism by
> which individual drivers can attach to device. As per design, these
> device are enumerated by the 'bus', and the match/probe pair is
> executed for each device. As this is a simple loop, each match/probe
> pair is executed sequentially.

There's also the deferred probing and general device ordering thing I
mailed Ted about yesterday - it's a different issue to async probing,
there's a big thread on the lists about one proposal for a subset of
these issues many of the participants of which are here.