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                        [KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
                        deferred probe to give up waiting on dependencies to
                        probe. Only specific dependencies (subsystems or
-                       drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout of 0
-                       will timeout at the end of initcalls. This option will also
+                       drivers) that have opted in will be ignored. A timeout
+                       of 0 will timeout at the end of initcalls. If the time
+                       out hasn't expired, it'll be restarted by each
+                       successful driver registration. This option will also
                        dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after
                        retrying.
 
                        driver later using sysfs.
 
        driver_async_probe=  [KNL]
-                       List of driver names to be probed asynchronously.
+                       List of driver names to be probed asynchronously. *
+                       matches with all driver names. If * is specified, the
+                       rest of the listed driver names are those that will NOT
+                       match the *.
                        Format: <driver_name1>,<driver_name2>...
 
        drm.edid_firmware=[<connector>:]<file>[,[<connector>:]<file>]