Re: [PATCH 00/21] On-demand device registration

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On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 10:28 AM, Alexander Holler <holler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Am 10.06.2015 um 09:30 schrieb Linus Walleij:

>> i2c host comes out, probes the regulator driver, regulator driver
>> probes and then the regulator_get() call returns.
>>
>> This requires instrumentation on anything providing a resource
>> to another driver like those I mentioned and a lot of overhead
>> infrastructure, but I think it's the right approach. However I don't
>> know if I would ever be able to pull that off myself, I know talk
>> is cheap and I should show the code instead.
>
> You would end up with the same problem of deadlocks as currently, and you
> would still need something ugly like the defered probe brutforce to avoid
> them.

Sorry I don't get that. Care to elaborate on why?

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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