On Friday 15 March 2013, Fabio Porcedda wrote:
> >> * Regarding the use of module_platform_driver_probe, I'm a little worried
> >> about
> >> the interactions with deferred probing. I don't think there are any
> >> regressions,
> >> but we should probably make people aware that one cannot return
> >> -EPROBE_DEFER
> >> from a platform_driver_probe function.
>
> The use of module_platform_driver_probe() doesn't change anything about that,
> it's exactly the same thing as using "return platform_driver_probe()".
> I'm right or I'm missing something? Maybe are you just speaking about
> the misuse of "platform_driver_probe"?
Yes, that was what I meant. The point is that if we need to review or remove
all uses of platform_driver_probe, it would be better not to introduce a
module_platform_driver_probe() interface to make it easier to use.
Arnd
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