Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754761Ab3COSJn (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Mar 2013 14:09:43 -0400 Received: from mail-ob0-f171.google.com ([209.85.214.171]:46928 "EHLO mail-ob0-f171.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754389Ab3COSJl (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Mar 2013 14:09:41 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <201303151128.48432.arnd@arndb.de> References: <1363266691-15757-1-git-send-email-fabio.porcedda@gmail.com> <20130314140631.GM1906@pengutronix.de> <201303151128.48432.arnd@arndb.de> From: Fabio Porcedda Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 19:09:18 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/10] drivers: misc: use module_platform_driver_probe() To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Sascha Hauer , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-media , linux-ide , lm-sensors , linux-input , linux-fbdev , Greg Kroah-Hartman , H Hartley Sweeten , Hans-Christian Egtvedt , Grant Likely Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1393 Lines: 28 On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > 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. Just to let you know, the module_platform_driver_probe() macro is already in v3.9-rc1 and is already used by some drivers. In linux-next there are already many patches that use that macro. Best regards -- Fabio Porcedda -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/