From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=3.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0282C3F2D7 for ; Wed, 4 Mar 2020 17:12:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D76C24654 for ; Wed, 4 Mar 2020 17:12:55 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1583341975; bh=fGZO8IiDt6IouMRYJcdwHaQ/Nli/lNDUQPVQ+t4fUJE=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:List-ID:From; b=BM1Y1pUY44G1MrW/1qM7yrWTv2SL9BHiM3yGw31P2nRkYWUd9H9seZFDbdBAryT3J N4tEtIsysKL57oVZrIelLlXOjbebNJfzQIIuOZaEdXQQBndLJjnXPU/yWUiiDZFCJa ++jXsKFRnLdKs9FwUoU9ItQZYxpK2hZT2owxyrBo= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1729863AbgCDRMy (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Mar 2020 12:12:54 -0500 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:43584 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726748AbgCDRMy (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Mar 2020 12:12:54 -0500 Received: from localhost (83-86-89-107.cable.dynamic.v4.ziggo.nl [83.86.89.107]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7108221775; Wed, 4 Mar 2020 17:12:53 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1583341973; bh=fGZO8IiDt6IouMRYJcdwHaQ/Nli/lNDUQPVQ+t4fUJE=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=QGSNA6SCwIwmnoXq6unuaIbYou3KDT8LlCwlB35VykB+lCFs9M3ouwd7ho1ObbzG1 vc2rDlHbd4UG0eRfdCIbaSZIhpjLDBquwL0RNFqYK5keUyYUConYjvrxEeaIgYynhV 0tLrwmAprP16lTXMmQO0oYYSp1tAww5C173kUmMw= Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2020 18:12:52 +0100 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: John Stultz Cc: lkml , Rob Herring , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Kevin Hilman , Ulf Hansson , Pavel Machek , Len Brown , Todd Kjos , Saravana Kannan , Bjorn Andersson , Liam Girdwood , Mark Brown , Thierry Reding , Linus Walleij , linux-pm@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/6] driver core: Improve and cleanup driver_deferred_probe_check_state() Message-ID: <20200304171252.GA1852336@kroah.com> References: <20200225050828.56458-1-john.stultz@linaro.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20200225050828.56458-1-john.stultz@linaro.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 05:08:22AM +0000, John Stultz wrote: > This series goal is to improve and cleanup the > driver_deferred_probe_check_state() code in the driver core. > > This series is useful for being able to support modules > dependencies which may be loaded by userland, far after > late_initcall is done. For instance, this series allows us to > successfully use various clk drivers as modules on the db845c > board. And without it, those drivers have to be statically built > in to work. > > Since I first sent out this patch, Saravana suggested an > alternative approach which also works for our needs, and is a > bit simpler: > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200220055250.196456-1-saravanak@google.com/T/#u > > However, while that patch provides the functionality we need, > I still suspect the driver_deferred_probe_check_state() code > could benefit from the cleanup in this patch, as the existing > logic is somewhat muddy. This looks much better, thanks for sticking with it, all now queued up. greg k-h