Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 4 Mar 2020 18:12:52 +0100 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v5 0/6] driver core: Improve and cleanup driver_deferred_probe_check_state() |
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On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 05:08:22AM +0000, John Stultz wrote: > This series goal is to improve and cleanup the > driver_deferred_probe_check_state() code in the driver core. > > This series is useful for being able to support modules > dependencies which may be loaded by userland, far after > late_initcall is done. For instance, this series allows us to > successfully use various clk drivers as modules on the db845c > board. And without it, those drivers have to be statically built > in to work. > > Since I first sent out this patch, Saravana suggested an > alternative approach which also works for our needs, and is a > bit simpler: > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200220055250.196456-1-saravanak@google.com/T/#u > > However, while that patch provides the functionality we need, > I still suspect the driver_deferred_probe_check_state() code > could benefit from the cleanup in this patch, as the existing > logic is somewhat muddy.
This looks much better, thanks for sticking with it, all now queued up.
greg k-h
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