Re: [PATCH v3 1/6] driver core: allow stopping deferred probe after init

2018-07-07 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 02:43:39PM -0600, Rob Herring wrote: > Deferred probe will currently wait forever on dependent devices to probe, > but sometimes a driver will never exist. It's also not always critical for > a driver to exist. Platforms can rely on default configuration from the > bootloade

Re: [PATCH v2 2/8] driver core: add a deferred probe timeout

2018-05-24 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 02:45:48PM -0500, Rob Herring wrote: > On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 2:01 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman > wrote: > > On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 12:50:18PM -0500, Rob Herring wrote: > >> Deferring probe can wait forever on dependencies that may never appear > >

Re: [PATCH v2 2/8] driver core: add a deferred probe timeout

2018-05-24 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 12:50:18PM -0500, Rob Herring wrote: > Deferring probe can wait forever on dependencies that may never appear > for a variety of reasons. This can be difficult to debug especially if > the console has dependencies or userspace fails to boot to a shell. Add > a timeout to ret

Re: [PATCH v2 1/8] driver core: make deferring probe after init optional

2018-05-24 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 12:50:17PM -0500, Rob Herring wrote: > Deferred probe will currently wait forever on dependent devices to probe, > but sometimes a driver will never exist. It's also not always critical for > a driver to exist. Platforms can rely on default configuration from the > bootloade

Re: [PATCH v2 1/8] driver core: make deferring probe after init optional

2018-05-24 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 12:50:17PM -0500, Rob Herring wrote: > Deferred probe will currently wait forever on dependent devices to probe, > but sometimes a driver will never exist. It's also not always critical for > a driver to exist. Platforms can rely on default configuration from the > bootloade

Re: [RFC PATCH] driver core: make deferring probe forever optional

2018-05-02 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Tue, May 01, 2018 at 04:31:14PM -0500, Rob Herring wrote: > Deferred probe will currently wait forever on dependent devices to probe, > but sometimes a driver will never exist. It's also not always critical for > a driver to exist. Platforms can rely on default configuration from the > bootloade