On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 8:50 AM Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 08:28:36PM +0100, Michael Walle wrote: > > [RESEND, fat-fingered the buttons of my mail client and converted > > all CCs to BCCs :(] > > > > Am 2021-01-20 20:02, schrieb Saravana Kannan: > > > On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 6:24 AM Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > > On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 4:53 AM Michael Walle <michael@xxxxxxxx> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > fw_devlink will defer the probe until all suppliers are ready. We can't > > > > > use builtin_platform_driver_probe() because it doesn't retry after probe > > > > > deferral. Convert it to builtin_platform_driver(). > > > > > > > > If builtin_platform_driver_probe() doesn't work with fw_devlink, then > > > > shouldn't it be fixed or removed? > > > > > > I was actually thinking about this too. The problem with fixing > > > builtin_platform_driver_probe() to behave like > > > builtin_platform_driver() is that these probe functions could be > > > marked with __init. But there are also only 20 instances of > > > builtin_platform_driver_probe() in the kernel: > > > $ git grep ^builtin_platform_driver_probe | wc -l > > > 20 > > > > > > So it might be easier to just fix them to not use > > > builtin_platform_driver_probe(). > > > > > > Michael, > > > > > > Any chance you'd be willing to help me by converting all these to > > > builtin_platform_driver() and delete builtin_platform_driver_probe()? > > > > If it just moving the probe function to the _driver struct and > > remove the __init annotations. I could look into that. > > Can I drop this patch then ? No, please pick it up. Michael and I were talking about doing similar changes for other drivers. -Saravana
