From: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
To: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel@vanguardiasur.com.ar>
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm: Change link order to load modules first
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 16:58:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140623145809.GC16725@ulmo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1403486076-1397-1-git-send-email-ezequiel@vanguardiasur.com.ar>
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On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 10:14:36PM -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> Given panels and I2C-connected encoders are required by DRM drivers,
> we need to change the link order so these are probed first. This commit
> moves all the i2c, panel and bridge helper drivers so they are probed
> before the DRM drivers.
No. We don't need to change the link order. What we need to do is make
sure that modules deal properly with situations where their resources
aren't available yet (i.e. EPROBE_DEFER). There are factors other than
link order that influence probe ordering.
Thierry
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-23 1:14 [PATCH] drm: Change link order to load modules first Ezequiel Garcia
2014-06-23 14:58 ` Thierry Reding [this message]
2014-06-23 15:29 ` Ezequiel Garcia
2014-06-27 5:14 ` Thierry Reding
2014-06-27 13:54 ` Ezequiel Garcia
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