On Thu, Aug 04, 2016 at 02:37:36PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 8:03 PM, Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> wrote:

> > 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.

> Some drivers/subsystems don't support deferred probing yet. Such failures
> usually don't blow up, but cause subtle malfunctioning.

Sure, but at this point these are pretty much just bugs - it's one of
the most common error patterns I see in probe routines but it does tend
to go along with poor "let's just ignore that error, it can't have been
important" practices which ought to be fixed anyway.