From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753867AbbCSQMs (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Mar 2015 12:12:48 -0400 Received: from mail-vc0-f182.google.com ([209.85.220.182]:47692 "EHLO mail-vc0-f182.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753569AbbCSQMp (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Mar 2015 12:12:45 -0400 Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 12:12:41 -0400 From: Tejun Heo To: Borislav Petkov Cc: Dmitry Torokhov , Doug Thompson , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-edac@vger.kernel.org, Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Tetsuo Handa , Olof Johansson , Arjan van de Ven , Greg Kroah-Hartman , "Luis R . Rodriguez" Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] EDAC: amd64_edac: decide if driver can load successfully early. Message-ID: <20150319161241.GL25365@htj.duckdns.org> References: <1426726150-983-1-git-send-email-dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> <1426726150-983-4-git-send-email-dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> <20150319094054.GC10860@pd.tnic> <20150319152957.GI25365@htj.duckdns.org> <20150319153505.GD11715@pd.tnic> <20150319155553.GK25365@htj.duckdns.org> <20150319160132.GG11715@pd.tnic> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150319160132.GG11715@pd.tnic> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 05:01:32PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 11:55:53AM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote: > > > > This code is standing in the way of a much more impactful generic > > driver layer improvement. > > So why not mark it as synchronously loading and forget about it? Isn't that obvious? Because hacks like this are likely to cause other problems down the road and set bad precedences. -- tejun