Third time was not the charm[0]. After Dmitry's comment[1], and after looking some more at the I2C drivers, I have given up on removing the smbus probe for now. We can always revisit this later if the situation improves enough, but there are more important things to fix. Instead, go all in on the address probe with retry and use it for both initial probe and resume, replacing the previous retry on power on commands. This gives us consistency and a single place to update and document. [0]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240426225739.2166-1-kl@xxxxxx/ [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZixvUNooESC02cJK@xxxxxxxxxx/