[PATCH v2 0/6] Introduce deferred probing

Sascha Hauer s.hauer at pengutronix.de
Thu Apr 16 22:24:12 PDT 2015


On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 12:53:14AM +0200, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote:
> This is round two of the introduction of deferred probing by moving
> drivers that request probe deferral to an extra device list that will
> be re-probed later.
> 
> Compared to v1 there are the following changes:
> - Loop over deferred device list until none succeeds
>   (Suggested by Sascha Hauer)
> - (Now) properly deal with deferred probing in led-gpio
> - Free GPIOs claimed by leds on foo_led_unregister()
> - Convert Orion GPIO to real platform driver
> Each patch also contains an individual changelog.
> 
> It would be great to give this patch series a little more coverage.
> Also, several other subsystems could use some support -EPROBE_DEFER
> but IMHO we should wait for someone to actually force probe deferral
> there.
> 
> Sebastian Hesselbarth (6):
>   base: Introduce deferred probing
>   gpio: Return -EPROBE_DEFER on gpio_get_num()
>   OF: gpio: Silence error message on -EPROBE_DEFER
>   led: gpio: Properly deal with deferred probing
>   led: gpio: Free GPIOs on unregister()
>   gpio: orion: Convert to platform_driver

Applied, thanks

Sascha


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