From: broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com (Mark Brown)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH v3] drivercore: Add driver probe deferral mechanism
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 12:00:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110929110011.GL3697@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110928231410.GF2838@ponder.secretlab.ca>
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 06:14:10PM -0500, Grant Likely wrote:
> For your question, I still think it is the driver that gets to make
> the decision. If it can proceed without a resource, then it should go
> ahead and succeed on the probe, and then arrange to either be notified
> of new gpio controller (or whatever) registrations, or poll for the
> resource to be set up.
Right, I do tend to agree. This is something we'll have to bear in mind
when deploying this stuff - drivers that are doing this sort of stuff
are going to get surprised.
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From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Manjunath GKondaiah <manjunath.gkondaiah@linaro.org>,
Dilan Lee <dilee@nvidia.com>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3] drivercore: Add driver probe deferral mechanism
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 12:00:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110929110011.GL3697@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110928231410.GF2838@ponder.secretlab.ca>
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 06:14:10PM -0500, Grant Likely wrote:
> For your question, I still think it is the driver that gets to make
> the decision. If it can proceed without a resource, then it should go
> ahead and succeed on the probe, and then arrange to either be notified
> of new gpio controller (or whatever) registrations, or poll for the
> resource to be set up.
Right, I do tend to agree. This is something we'll have to bear in mind
when deploying this stuff - drivers that are doing this sort of stuff
are going to get surprised.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-29 11:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-22 18:51 [RFC PATCH v3] drivercore: Add driver probe deferral mechanism Grant Likely
2011-09-22 18:51 ` Grant Likely
2011-09-22 18:58 ` Joe Perches
2011-09-22 18:58 ` Joe Perches
2011-09-22 19:28 ` David Daney
2011-09-22 20:29 ` Alan Cox
2011-09-22 20:29 ` Alan Cox
2011-09-22 21:19 ` Grant Likely
2011-09-22 21:19 ` Grant Likely
2011-09-23 17:50 ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
2011-09-23 17:50 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2011-09-23 23:18 ` Grant Likely
2011-09-23 23:18 ` Grant Likely
2011-09-22 21:19 ` David Daney
2011-09-22 22:47 ` Alan Cox
2011-09-22 22:47 ` Alan Cox
2011-09-23 5:02 ` Grant Likely
2011-09-23 5:02 ` Grant Likely
2011-09-23 16:55 ` David Daney
2011-09-23 16:55 ` David Daney
2011-09-26 14:16 ` Mark Brown
2011-09-26 14:16 ` Mark Brown
2011-09-26 15:12 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-09-26 15:12 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-09-26 15:26 ` Mark Brown
2011-09-26 15:26 ` Mark Brown
2011-09-26 15:48 ` Grant Likely
2011-09-26 15:48 ` Grant Likely
2011-09-27 13:50 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-09-27 13:50 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-09-27 21:08 ` Grant Likely
2011-09-27 21:08 ` Grant Likely
2011-09-27 22:13 ` Mark Brown
2011-09-27 22:13 ` Mark Brown
2011-09-28 13:04 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-09-28 13:04 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-09-28 13:20 ` Mark Brown
2011-09-28 13:20 ` Mark Brown
2011-09-28 23:14 ` Grant Likely
2011-09-28 23:14 ` Grant Likely
2011-09-29 11:00 ` Mark Brown [this message]
2011-09-29 11:00 ` Mark Brown
2011-10-03 23:02 ` Kevin Hilman
2011-10-03 23:02 ` Kevin Hilman
2011-10-04 15:52 ` Grant Likely
2011-10-04 15:52 ` Grant Likely
2011-10-04 14:51 ` G, Manjunath Kondaiah
2011-10-04 14:51 ` G, Manjunath Kondaiah
2011-10-04 14:51 ` G, Manjunath Kondaiah
2011-10-04 15:58 ` Grant Likely
2011-10-04 15:58 ` Grant Likely
2011-10-04 15:58 ` Grant Likely
2011-10-04 18:35 ` G, Manjunath Kondaiah
2011-10-04 18:35 ` G, Manjunath Kondaiah
2011-10-04 23:35 ` Grant Likely
2011-10-04 23:35 ` Grant Likely
2011-10-07 3:31 ` G, Manjunath Kondaiah
2011-10-07 3:31 ` G, Manjunath Kondaiah
2011-10-11 20:47 ` Andrew Morton
2011-10-11 20:47 ` Andrew Morton
2011-10-11 21:07 ` David Daney
2011-10-13 4:19 ` Grant Likely
2011-10-13 4:19 ` Grant Likely
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