Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 31 Oct 2016 06:21:40 -0600 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] driver core: Make Kconfig text for DEBUG_TEST_DRIVER_REMOVE stronger |
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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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