I was under the misconception that the sysfs dev stuff can be fully set up, and then registered all in one step with device_add. That's true for properties and property groups, but not for parents and child devices. Those must be fully registered before you can register a child. Add a bit of tracking to make sure that asynchronous mst connector hotplugging gets this right. For consistency we rely upon the implicit barriers of the connector->mutex, which is taken anyway, to ensure that at least either the connector or device registration call will work out. Mildly tested since I can't reliably reproduce this on my mst box here. Reported-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Acked-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com> Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1484237756-2720-1-git-send-email-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch