Re: [PATCH] soc: imx8m: Probe the SoC driver late

["Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>]

On Wed, Sep 25, 2024, at 16:00, Marek Vasut wrote:
> With driver_async_probe=* on kernel command line, the following trace is
> produced because on i.MX8M Plus hardware because the soc-imx8m.c driver
> calls of_clk_get_by_name() which returns -EPROBE_DEFER because the clock
> driver is not yet probed. This was not detected during regular testing
> without driver_async_probe.
>
> Attempt to fix it by probing the SoC driver late, but I don't think that
> is the correct approach here.

I think the correct fix would be to propagate the -EPROBE_DEFER
and return that from imx8_soc_init(), so it gets retried again
after the clock driver.

      Arnd