On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 04:27:25PM +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
> Deferred probing cannot be used with platform_driver_probe as by the
> time probing is retried either the driver has been unregistered or its
> probe function has been set to platform_drv_probe_fail.
>
> With commit e9354576 ("gpiolib: Defer failed gpio requests by default")
> the gpio subsystem started returning -EPROBE_DEFER, which in turn
> several platform drivers using platform_driver_probe return to driver
> core. Other subsystems (e.g. regulator) has since started doing the
> same.
>
> The first patch in this series prevents platform drivers using
> platform_driver_probe from requesting probe deferral while warning that
> it is not supported.
>
> The remaining patches move six platform-driver probe functions that rely
> on gpio_request out of __init. There are likely other probe functions
> that might return -EPROBE_DEFER and should be moved out of __init as
> well.
As usually when I read this I wonder why platform_driver_probe exists
anyway. The only advantage I can think off is that the probe functions
are in __init and thus can be disposed of later. Now you remove the
__init annotations from these probe functions. Wouldn't it be better to
convert the drivers to regular platform_driver_register instead?
Sascha
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