Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 Jul 2020 12:07:40 +0100 | From | Mark Brown <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v6 2/4] driver core: add deferring probe reason to devices_deferred property |
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On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 09:42:49AM +0200, Andrzej Hajda wrote:
> But the provider does not know if *get is called in probe context or > not, so it is not able to differentiate it.
> So the whole idea is for me suspicious/wrong. Kind of proof:
> 1. If you insist that provider's EPROBE_ERROR must be always propagated > to driver core then.
> 2. You must enforce that resources can be gathered only from probe.
> 3. But this is against current practice, even if majority of drivers > does it from probe, there are many which doesn't.
Those drivers are probably buggy anyway at this point given probe deferral. [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |