Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934915AbcDMOM4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Apr 2016 10:12:56 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:33427 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934284AbcDMOMz (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Apr 2016 10:12:55 -0400 Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2016 07:12:54 -0700 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Marek Szyprowski Cc: linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Russell King - ARM Linux , Ulf Hansson , Krzysztof Kozlowski , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 1/2] drivers: base: add support for registering notifier about deferred probe Message-ID: <20160413141254.GB12749@kroah.com> References: <1460540160-18762-1-git-send-email-m.szyprowski@samsung.com> <1460540160-18762-2-git-send-email-m.szyprowski@samsung.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1460540160-18762-2-git-send-email-m.szyprowski@samsung.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.0 (2016-04-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 556 Lines: 14 On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 11:35:59AM +0200, Marek Szyprowski wrote: > This patch adds code which allow other subsystems get a notification > when deferred probe has been triggered. This way one can retry some > actions, which earlier failed with -EPROBE_DEFER error code. > > Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski Why would some other subsystem want/care about this? You aren't telling them what device was deferred, and you don't need to as the bus itself already knows this information as it did the deferring! confused, greg k-h