[RFC PATCH 0/9] dt: dependencies (for deterministic driver initialization order based on the DT)

[Mark Rutland]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 08:19:00PM +0100, Alexander Holler wrote:
> Am 21.08.2014 16:02, schrieb Thierry Reding:
> 
> > Anyway, those are all fairly standard reasons for where deferred probe
> > triggers, and since I do like deferred probe for it's simplicity and
> > reliability I'd rather not try to work around it if boot time is all
> > that people are concerned about.
> 
> It's neither simple nor reliable. It's non deterministic brutforcing 
> while making it almost impossible to identify real errors.

It's horrible, yes.

> In my humble opinion the worst way to solve something. I'm pretty sure 
> if I would have suggest such a solution, the maintainer crowd would have 
> eaten me without cooking.

We didn't have a better workable solution at the time. Having a hack
that got boards booting was considered better than not having them boot.
I don't remember people being particularly enthralled by the idea.

Thanks,
Mark.