Re: [PATCH] driver core: Disable late probes by default

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On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 09:40:48AM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> On 19 October 2015 at 17:19, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 05:13:22PM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> >> To smooth the transition to late probes, make disabled the default for
> >> DELAY_DEVICE_PROBES and let individual SoCs enable the option as they
> >> get fixed.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu.vizoso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/g/20151016181129.GA1764@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>
> >> ---
> >>
> >> Hi Rob,
> >>
> >> I'm sending this in case you think it would be best to leave the
> >> on-demand probe series in -next for now but have late probes disabled to
> >> avoid hassle to some people.
> >
> > I would like Rob to just drop this series please, I don't agree with it
> > at all at the moment.
> 
> Hi Greg,
> 
> is it the case that you are satisfied with deferred probes as a way of
> ordering device probing and that I should look at how to solve my
> problem by improving it?

Yes, especially given that you have said this does not speed up your
boot times, which I thought was your main goal here :(

If deferred probes doesn't work well, we can fix it, but for now it
seems our best option.

thanks,

greg k-h
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