On Wednesday 20 March 2013, Fabio Porcedda wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wednesday 20 March 2013, Fabio Porcedda wrote: > >> I think we can check inside the deferred_probe_work_func() > >> if the dev->probe function pointer is equal to platform_drv_probe_fail(). > > > > I think it's too late by then, because that would only warn if we try to probe > > it again, but when platform_driver_probe() does not succeed immediately, it > > Maybe you mean "does succeed immediately" ? I mean in this code (simplified for the sake of discussion) int __init_or_module platform_driver_probe(struct platform_driver *drv, int (*probe)(struct platform_device *)) { int retval, code; drv->probe = probe; retval = code = platform_driver_register(drv); drv->probe = NULL; if (code == 0 && list_empty(&drv->driver.p->klist_devices.k_list)) retval = -ENODEV; drv->driver.probe = platform_drv_probe_fail; if (code != retval) platform_driver_unregister(drv); return retval; } we assume that all devices are bound to drivers during the call to platform_driver_register, and if the device list is empty afterwards, we unregister the driver and will never get to the deferred probing stage. Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html