[PATCH v3 1/4] hwmon: iio_hwmon: delay probing with late_initcall

Alexander Stein alexander.stein at systec-electronic.com
Tue Jul 26 01:21:37 PDT 2016


On Tuesday 26 July 2016 09:43:44, Quentin Schulz wrote:
> iio_channel_get_all returns -ENODEV when it cannot find either phandles and
> properties in the Device Tree or channels whose consumer_dev_name matches
> iio_hwmon in iio_map_list. The iio_map_list is filled in by iio drivers
> which might be probed after iio_hwmon.

Would it work if iio_channel_get_all returning ENODEV is used for returning 
EPROBE_DEFER in iio_channel_get_all? Using late initcalls for driver/device 
dependencies seems not right for me at this place.

Best regards,
Alexander




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