On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 3:05 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <[email protected]> wrote: > On 26 September 2015 at 20:15, Rob Herring <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 09/21/2015 09:03 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >>> Add a field to struct device that instructs the device-driver core to >>> defer the probe of this device until the late_initcall level. >> >> This is true until the next patch with moves deferred probe processing >> to device_initcall_sync. So disabling this option alone won't totally >> revert to current behaviour. I guess patch 21 could be reverted if >> necessary. > > Actually, the goal with that commit was to prevent potential problems > due to the increased pressure on late_initcall, as suggested by > Grygorii Strashko, but I haven't found yet any evidence of it being > needed, and in my testing the series boot all boards in kernelci with > or without this commit. So I would just not commit it for now and only > consider applying it later if someone reports a problem.
I had similar concerns with assumptions about ordering WRT late_initcall. I would keep this for now. Rob -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
