Re: [PATCH v5 0/6] driver core: Improve and cleanup driver_deferred_probe_check_state()

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 05:08:22AM +0000, John Stultz wrote:
> This series goal is to improve and cleanup the
> driver_deferred_probe_check_state() code in the driver core.
> 
> This series is useful for being able to support modules
> dependencies which may be loaded by userland, far after
> late_initcall is done. For instance, this series allows us to
> successfully use various clk drivers as modules on the db845c
> board. And without it, those drivers have to be statically built
> in to work.
> 
> Since I first sent out this patch, Saravana suggested an
> alternative approach which also works for our needs, and is a
> bit simpler:
>  https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200220055250.196456-1-saravanak@xxxxxxxxxx/T/#u
> 
> However, while that patch provides the functionality we need,
> I still suspect the driver_deferred_probe_check_state() code
> could benefit from the cleanup in this patch, as the existing
> logic is somewhat muddy.

This looks much better, thanks for sticking with it, all now queued up.

greg k-h