Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Aug 2021 15:13:25 +0200 | From | Andrew Lunn <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] driver core: fw_devlink: Add support for FWNODE_FLAG_BROKEN_PARENT |
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On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 12:45:24AM -0700, Saravana Kannan wrote: > If a parent device is also a supplier to a child device, fw_devlink=on > (correctly) delays the probe() of the child device until the probe() of > the parent finishes successfully. > > However, some drivers of such parent devices (where parent is also a > supplier) incorrectly expect the child device to finish probing > successfully as soon as they are added using device_add() and before the > probe() of the parent device has completed successfully.
Please can you point at the code making this assumption. It sounds like we are missing some EPROBE_DEFER handling in the driver, or maybe the DSA framework.
Andrew
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