Messages in this thread | | | From | rfoss@kernel ... | Subject | Re: [PATCH] drm/bridge: anx7625: Prevent endless probe loop | Date | Tue, 23 May 2023 19:18:24 +0200 |
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From: Robert Foss <rfoss@kernel.org>
On Thu, 18 May 2023 15:39:02 -0400, Nícolas F. R. A. Prado wrote: > During probe, the driver registers i2c dummy devices and populates the > aux bus, which registers a device for the panel. After doing that, the > driver can still defer probe if needed. This ordering of operations is > troublesome however, because the deferred probe work will retry probing > all pending devices every time a new device is registered. Therefore, if > modules need to be loaded in order to satisfy the dependencies for this > driver to complete probe, the kernel will stall, since it'll keep trying > to probe the anx7625 driver, but never succeed, given that modules would > only be loaded after the deferred probe work completes. > > [...]
Applied, thanks!
[1/1] drm/bridge: anx7625: Prevent endless probe loop https://cgit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm-misc/commit/?id=1464e48d69ab
Rob
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