Re: [PATCH] driver core: Make Kconfig text for DEBUG_TEST_DRIVER_REMOVE stronger

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Mon Oct 31 2016 - 06:12:53 EST


On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 6:09 PM, Laura Abbott <labbott@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The current state of driver removal is not great.
> CONFIG_DEBUG_TEST_DRIVER_REMOVE finds lots of errors. The help text
> currently undersells exactly how many errors this option will find. Add
> a bit more description to indicate this option shouldn't be turned on
> unless you actually want to debug driver removal. The text can be
> changed later when more drivers are fixed up.

Indeed, this is failing miserably for e.g. SoC clock drivers using
platform_driver_probe(), which are never retried, rendering the complete
system useless.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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