Date:   Fri, 17 Mar 2023 17:26:56 +0100
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To:     =?iso-8859-1?Q?=C1lvaro_Fern=E1ndez?= Rojas <noltari@gmail.com>
Cc:     Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>, davem@davemloft.net,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] net: dsa: b53: mmap: register MDIO Mux bus controller
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> > The proposed solution is too radical for a problem that was not properly
> > characterized yet, so this patch set has my temporary NACK.
> 
> Forgive me, but why do you consider this solution too radical?

I have to agree with Vladimir here. The problem is not the driver, but
when the driver is instantiated. It seems radical to remove a driver
just because it loads at the wrong time. Ideally you want the driver
to figure out now is not a good time and return -EPROBE_DEFER, because
a resource it requires it not available.

  Andrew