From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754447AbaHUTTT (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Aug 2014 15:19:19 -0400 Received: from h1446028.stratoserver.net ([85.214.92.142]:58676 "EHLO mail.ahsoftware.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753198AbaHUTTR (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Aug 2014 15:19:17 -0400 Message-ID: <53F64624.5000403@ahsoftware.de> Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 21:19:00 +0200 From: Alexander Holler User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Thierry Reding , Grant Likely CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, Jon Loeliger , Russell King , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Rob Herring , Arnd Bergmann , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/9] dt: dependencies (for deterministic driver initialization order based on the DT) References: <1399913280-6915-1-git-send-email-holler@ahsoftware.de> <20140514141914.446F7C4153D@trevor.secretlab.ca> <20140821140211.GD19293@ulmo.nvidia.com> In-Reply-To: <20140821140211.GD19293@ulmo.nvidia.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Am 21.08.2014 16:02, schrieb Thierry Reding: > Anyway, those are all fairly standard reasons for where deferred probe > triggers, and since I do like deferred probe for it's simplicity and > reliability I'd rather not try to work around it if boot time is all > that people are concerned about. It's neither simple nor reliable. It's non deterministic brutforcing while making it almost impossible to identify real errors. In my humble opinion the worst way to solve something. I'm pretty sure if I would have suggest such a solution, the maintainer crowd would have eaten me without cooking. Regards, Alexander Holler