On Friday 15 March 2013, Fabio Porcedda wrote: > >> * Regarding the use of module_platform_driver_probe, I'm a little worried about > >> the interactions with deferred probing. I don't think there are any regressions, > >> but we should probably make people aware that one cannot return -EPROBE_DEFER > >> from a platform_driver_probe function. > > The use of module_platform_driver_probe() doesn't change anything about that, > it's exactly the same thing as using "return platform_driver_probe()". > I'm right or I'm missing something? Maybe are you just speaking about > the misuse of "platform_driver_probe"? Yes, that was what I meant. The point is that if we need to review or remove all uses of platform_driver_probe, it would be better not to introduce a module_platform_driver_probe() interface to make it easier to use. Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html