On 05/24/18 11:18, Mark Brown wrote: > On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 12:50:17PM -0500, Rob Herring wrote: > >> Subsystems or drivers may opt-in to this behavior by calling >> driver_deferred_probe_check_init_done() instead of just returning >> -EPROBE_DEFER. They may use additional information from DT or kernel's >> config to decide whether to continue to defer probe or not. > > Should userspace have some involvement in this decision? It knows if > it's got any intention of loading modules for example. Kernel config > checks might be good enough, though it's going to be a pain to work out > if the relevant driver is built as a module for example. > A parallel issue is that loading an overlay could provide the resource that will allow the deferred probe to complete. (That is, once we finish implementing the run time overlays feature.) -Frank -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
