On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 07:58:29PM +0200, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 06:26:36PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> > > to help enable asynchronous probe, however for built-in devices this requires
> > > very specific platform knowledge otherwise using async probe will blow up
> > > your kernel -- if you get it right though, using async probe can help with

> > I'm not sure what specific platform knowledge you're thinking of here?
> > We have coverage for most things in the form of deferred probe (messy
> > though it is).

> Deferred probe is a complete a hack and sub-optimal. Being able to address

Sure, I don't think anyone disagrees on that but it does mean we don't
actually blow up easily like we used to - it's messy but it does get
there safely.  I was specifically querying your statement that things
would blow up.