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Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/bridge: anx7625: Prevent endless probe loop
Date:   Tue, 23 May 2023 19:18:24 +0200
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From: Robert Foss <rfoss@kernel.org>

On Thu, 18 May 2023 15:39:02 -0400, Nícolas F. R. A. Prado wrote:
> During probe, the driver registers i2c dummy devices and populates the
> aux bus, which registers a device for the panel. After doing that, the
> driver can still defer probe if needed. This ordering of operations is
> troublesome however, because the deferred probe work will retry probing
> all pending devices every time a new device is registered. Therefore, if
> modules need to be loaded in order to satisfy the dependencies for this
> driver to complete probe, the kernel will stall, since it'll keep trying
> to probe the anx7625 driver, but never succeed, given that modules would
> only be loaded after the deferred probe work completes.
> 
> [...]

Applied, thanks!

[1/1] drm/bridge: anx7625: Prevent endless probe loop
      https://cgit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm-misc/commit/?id=1464e48d69ab


Rob