From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751657AbcBLDTK (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Feb 2016 22:19:10 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:38937 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750963AbcBLDTH (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Feb 2016 22:19:07 -0500 Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 19:19:07 -0800 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Marek Szyprowski Cc: linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Russell King - ARM Linux , Ulf Hansson , Tomeu Vizoso , Dan Williams , Kukjin Kim , Krzysztof Kozlowski , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 RESEND 3/5] driver core: handle -EPROBE_DEFER from bus_type.match() Message-ID: <20160212031907.GD10157@kroah.com> References: <1455101250-11327-1-git-send-email-m.szyprowski@samsung.com> <1455101250-11327-4-git-send-email-m.szyprowski@samsung.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1455101250-11327-4-git-send-email-m.szyprowski@samsung.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 11:47:28AM +0100, Marek Szyprowski wrote: > From: Tomeu Vizoso > > Allow implementations of the match() callback in struct bus_type to > return errors and if it's -EPROBE_DEFER then queue the device for > deferred probing. > > This is useful to buses such as AMBA in which devices are registered > before their matching information can be retrieved from the HW > (typically because a clock driver hasn't probed yet). > > Signed-off-by: Tomeu Vizoso > [changed if-else code structure, adjusted documentation to match the code, > extended comments] > Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski > Reviewed-by: Ulf Hansson > --- > Documentation/driver-model/porting.txt | 6 ++++-- > drivers/base/dd.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++-- > include/linux/device.h | 7 +++++-- > 3 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman