From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752782AbcADRMS (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jan 2016 12:12:18 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:57929 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751688AbcADRMP (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jan 2016 12:12:15 -0500 Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2016 09:12:15 -0800 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Russell King - ARM Linux Cc: Marek Szyprowski , linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ulf Hansson , Tomeu Vizoso , Dan Williams , Kukjin Kim , Krzysztof Kozlowski , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 3/5] driver core: handle -EPROBE_DEFER from bus_type.match() Message-ID: <20160104171215.GB25961@kroah.com> References: <1450868368-5650-1-git-send-email-m.szyprowski@samsung.com> <1450868368-5650-4-git-send-email-m.szyprowski@samsung.com> <20160104163100.GK19062@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160104163100.GK19062@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 04:31:00PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 11:59:26AM +0100, Marek Szyprowski wrote: > > From: Tomeu Vizoso > > > > Allow implementations of the match() callback in struct bus_type to > > return errors and if it's -EPROBE_DEFER then queue the device for > > deferred probing. > > > > This is useful to buses such as AMBA in which devices are registered > > before their matching information can be retrieved from the HW > > (typically because a clock driver hasn't probed yet). > > > > Signed-off-by: Tomeu Vizoso > > [changed if-else code structure, adjusted documentation to match the code, > > extended comments] > > Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski > > Reviewed-by: Ulf Hansson > > This patch _really_ needs an ack from Greg before I can merge it. > > DRIVER CORE, KOBJECTS, DEBUGFS, KERNFS AND SYSFS > M: Greg Kroah-Hartman > T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core.gitS: Supported > F: Documentation/kobject.txt > F: drivers/base/ > > alternatively, the whole series should be taken by Greg, with my ack > for the amba and ARM bits. > > Given that Greg is unlikely to respond this close to the merge window > (he's not responded to my messages about the amba-pl011 driver having > been messed up by the wrong patch set being taken...) I think this has > basically missed the 4.5 merge window. Sorry. I've been on vacation, so give me a week or so to catch up on everything... And yes, this missed the 4.5 merge window, that closed last week for my trees. thanks, greg k-h