From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
Kevin Hilman <khilman@kernel.org>,
Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>, Todd Kjos <tkjos@google.com>,
Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com>,
Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>,
Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>,
Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>,
Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>,
Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/6] driver core: Improve and cleanup driver_deferred_probe_check_state()
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2020 18:12:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200304171252.GA1852336@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200225050828.56458-1-john.stultz@linaro.org>
On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 05:08:22AM +0000, John Stultz wrote:
> This series goal is to improve and cleanup the
> driver_deferred_probe_check_state() code in the driver core.
>
> This series is useful for being able to support modules
> dependencies which may be loaded by userland, far after
> late_initcall is done. For instance, this series allows us to
> successfully use various clk drivers as modules on the db845c
> board. And without it, those drivers have to be statically built
> in to work.
>
> Since I first sent out this patch, Saravana suggested an
> alternative approach which also works for our needs, and is a
> bit simpler:
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200220055250.196456-1-saravanak@google.com/T/#u
>
> However, while that patch provides the functionality we need,
> I still suspect the driver_deferred_probe_check_state() code
> could benefit from the cleanup in this patch, as the existing
> logic is somewhat muddy.
This looks much better, thanks for sticking with it, all now queued up.
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-04 17:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-25 5:08 [PATCH v5 0/6] driver core: Improve and cleanup driver_deferred_probe_check_state() John Stultz
2020-02-25 5:08 ` [PATCH v5 1/6] driver core: Fix driver_deferred_probe_check_state() logic John Stultz
2020-02-25 16:24 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-02-25 5:08 ` [PATCH v5 2/6] driver core: Set deferred_probe_timeout to a longer default if CONFIG_MODULES is set John Stultz
2020-02-25 5:08 ` [PATCH v5 3/6] pinctrl: Remove use of driver_deferred_probe_check_state_continue() John Stultz
2020-02-26 2:11 ` Saravana Kannan
2020-02-26 2:13 ` John Stultz
2020-02-25 5:08 ` [PATCH v5 4/6] driver core: Remove driver_deferred_probe_check_state_continue() John Stultz
2020-02-25 5:08 ` [PATCH v5 5/6] driver core: Rename deferred_probe_timeout and make it global John Stultz
2020-02-25 5:08 ` [PATCH v5 6/6] regulator: Use driver_deferred_probe_timeout for regulator_init_complete_work John Stultz
2020-02-25 12:43 ` Mark Brown
2020-03-04 17:12 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2020-04-21 23:59 ` [PATCH v5 0/6] driver core: Improve and cleanup driver_deferred_probe_check_state() Eugeniu Rosca
2020-04-22 1:16 ` John Stultz
2020-04-22 6:46 ` Eugeniu Rosca
2020-04-22 7:54 ` Mark Brown
2020-04-22 20:45 ` John Stultz
2020-04-23 7:26 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-04-23 14:35 ` Mark Brown
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