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From:   Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Date:   Sat, 12 Sep 2020 18:21:58 +0200
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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] pinctrl: Rework driver_deferred_probe_check_state()
 evaluation since default timeout has changed
To:     John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
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        Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>,
        Kevin Hilman <khilman@kernel.org>,
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On Sat, Aug 8, 2020 at 6:35 AM John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> wrote:

> In commit bec6c0ecb243 ("pinctrl: Remove use of
> driver_deferred_probe_check_state_continue()"), we removed the
> use of driver_deferred_probe_check_state_continue() which
> effectively never returned -ETIMED_OUT, with the
> driver_deferred_probe_check_state() function that had been
> reworked to properly return ETIMED_OUT when the deferred probe
> timeout expired. Along with that change, we set the default
> timeout to 30 seconds.
>
> However, since moving the timeout to 30 seconds caused some
> issues for some users with optional dt links, we set the
> default timeout back to zero - see commit ce68929f07de ("driver
> core: Revert default driver_deferred_probe_timeout value to 0")
>
> This in essence changed the behavior of the pinctrl's usage
> of driver_deferred_probe_check_state(), as it now would return
> ETIMED_OUT by default. Thierry reported this caused problems with
> resume on tegra platforms.
>
> Thus this patch tweaks the pinctrl logic so that it behaves as
> before. If modules are enabled, we'll only return EPROBE_DEFERRED
> while we're missing drivers linked in the DT.
>
> Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
> Cc: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>
> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
> Cc: Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>
> Cc: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>
> Cc: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com>
> Cc: Todd Kjos <tkjos@google.com>
> Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
> Cc: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@kernel.org>
> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
> Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
> Fixes: bec6c0ecb243 ("pinctrl: Remove use of driver_deferred_probe_check_state_continue()")
> Fixes: ce68929f07de ("driver core: Revert default driver_deferred_probe_timeout value to 0")
> Reported-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>

As noted I applied Thierry's similar patch.

Yours,
Linus Walleij