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SubjectRe: [PATCH] driver core: Make Kconfig text for DEBUG_TEST_DRIVER_REMOVE stronger
On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 11:12:45AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 6:09 PM, Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com> wrote:
> > The current state of driver removal is not great.
> > CONFIG_DEBUG_TEST_DRIVER_REMOVE finds lots of errors. The help text
> > currently undersells exactly how many errors this option will find. Add
> > a bit more description to indicate this option shouldn't be turned on
> > unless you actually want to debug driver removal. The text can be
> > changed later when more drivers are fixed up.
>
> Indeed, this is failing miserably for e.g. SoC clock drivers using
> platform_driver_probe(), which are never retried, rendering the complete
> system useless.

Why are they never retried?

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