From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 635E883D for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2016 18:03:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mezzanine.sirena.org.uk (mezzanine.sirena.org.uk [106.187.55.193]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E088D294 for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2016 18:03:56 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2016 19:03:46 +0100 From: Mark Brown To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Message-ID: <20160727180346.GP11806@sirena.org.uk> References: <20160727172636.GM11806@sirena.org.uk> <20160727175829.GG5537@wotan.suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="dZihrQ6eCIduWT38" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160727175829.GG5537@wotan.suse.de> Cc: ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org, Mauro Carvalho Chehab , "vegard.nossum@gmail.com" , "rafael.j.wysocki" , Marek Szyprowski , Valentin Rothberg Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [TECH TOPIC] Addressing complex dependencies and semantics (v2) List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , --dZihrQ6eCIduWT38 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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. --dZihrQ6eCIduWT38 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJXmPeBAAoJECTWi3JdVIfQMcQIAIcAga64otMKcUOwI0pNKY4z wYcMpBcXFnX7B9B80MiQfuXvy6we64cvrO2GZxt0I253pb4cggBnOMHOlr0WlHq1 eW55Qgdts4e6YfGVdJLO4JJsAXcqPylfijX7gHgtAVNFMM8Urh3qJWzlw64aeJ4X nvZKRntRK1g7yfW9956IoaYDndRs3DvCDT7Ansr4+H21vi+fugoLUvDLoecdLQ8D noJwv/13/wMj4HEy4FelKBwLi8AaYwylmkCmQnpvBV0056EYS9y1sA0eWW564Dwi wc1c1IE1VEiesbenDEq245McsT74fqJKsg4BL++j8akJrnskRncoOPWTjCA0tTU= =7OkA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --dZihrQ6eCIduWT38--