In the hip06 and hip07 SoCs, the interrupt lines from the SAS controllers are connected to mbigen hw module [1]. The mbigen module is probed with module_init, and, as such, is not guaranteed to probe before the SAS driver. So we need to support deferred probe. We check for probe deferral in the hw layer probe, so we not probe into the main layer and allocate shost, memories, etc., to later learn that we need to defer the probe. [1] ./Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interrupt-controller/hisilicon,mbigen-v2.txt Signed-off-by: John Garry <john.garry@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/hisi_sas/hisi_sas_v2_hw.c b/drivers/scsi/hisi_sas/hisi_sas_v2_hw.c index c0e7bf2..a179592 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/hisi_sas/hisi_sas_v2_hw.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/hisi_sas/hisi_sas_v2_hw.c @@ -2971,6 +2971,18 @@ static int hisi_sas_v2_init(struct hisi_hba *hisi_hba) static int hisi_sas_v2_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) { + /* + * Check if we should defer the probe before we probe the + * upper layer, as it's hard to defer later on. + */ + int ret = platform_get_irq(pdev, 0); + + if (ret < 0) { + if (ret != -EPROBE_DEFER) + dev_err(&pdev->dev, "cannot obtain irq\n"); + return ret; + } + return hisi_sas_probe(pdev, &hisi_sas_v2_hw); } -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html