Re: [PATCH v1 2/4] platform/x86: mlx-platform: Add differed bus functionality

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 03:58:18PM -0700, Darren Hart wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 10:09:34PM +0000, Vadim Pasternak wrote:
> > Add deferred bus functionality in order to enforce probing flow execution
> > order. Driver mlx-platform activates platform driver i2c-mux-reg, which
> > creates busses infrastructure, after that it activates mlxreg-hotplug
> > driver, which uses these busses, for connecting devices. The possible
> > miss-ordering can happened, for example in case the probing routine of
> > mlxreg-hotplug is already started execution, while i2c-mux-reg probing
> > routine is not completed yet. In such situation the first one could
> > attempt to connect device to adapter number, which is not created yet.
> > And as a result this connection will fail. In order to ensure the order of
> > probing execution on mlxreg-hotplug probe routine will be deferred until
> > all the busses is not created by  probe routine of i2c-mux-reg.
> > In order to ensure the flow order, mlx-platform driver passes the highest
> > bus number to the mlxreg-hotplug platform data, which in their turn could
> > wait in the deferred state, until all the necessary buses topology is not
> > exist.
> 
> Vadim,
> 
> I've got part way through a review of this series several times, and keep
> running out of time trying to determine if the solution is appropriate
> for the problem.
> 
> The deferred probing waiting for the i2c bus to be available seems like
> something we might be able to handle more elegantly with:
> 
> 1) request_module() in the platform driver
> 2) careful use of init levels (subsys, device, late)
> 
> This isn't something I'm well versed in - so I'll reach out here for
> some advice from Greg and the i2c maintainer, Wolfram, and list (added
> to Cc).

deferred device probe?