On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tuesday 19 March 2013, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: >> Hmm, so we may have drivers that (now) work perfectly fine with >> module_platform_driver_probe()/platform_driver_probe(), but will start >> failing suddenly in the future? > > They will fail if someone changes the initialization order. That would > already break drivers before deferred probing support (and was the reason > we added feature in the first place), but now we can be much more liberal > with the order in which drivers are initialized, except when they are > using platform_driver_probe() > >> I guess we need a big fat WARN_ON(-EPROBE_DEFER) in >> platform_driver_probe() to catch these? > > Yes, very good idea. > > Arnd If it's fine, I'll send a patch for that. Regards -- Fabio Porcedda -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
