Re: [PATCH] gpiolib: Defer failed gpio requests by default

From: Mark Brown
Date: Tue Jul 10 2012 - 07:07:37 EST


On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 10:54:41PM +0100, Grant Likely wrote:

> I'm fine with this patch, but the patch that adds the twizzling of the
> dpm_list when probing needs some tweaking, and this patch must be
> applied after that one. I'll go and reply to that patch now (and cc
> you if you're not already).

Given how many subsystems are already doing the -EPROBE_DEFER stuff it
seems like we're already at the point where the core logic needs to be
bugfixes I'm not sure it's worth holding off, any system that's hitting
this is already buggy anyway so at worst we're just shifting the bug
around.

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