Re: [PATCH] i2c: do not try to load modules for of-registered devices

From: Wolfram Sang
Date: Mon Jan 26 2015 - 10:53:44 EST


On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 12:07:22AM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> Trying to register an I2C device asynchronously (via async_schedule() call)
> results in an ugly warning from request_module() warning about potential
> deadlock (because request_module tries to wait for async works to
> complete). While we could try to switch to request_module_nowait(), other
> buses, as well as I2C itself when not using device tree, do not try to load
> modules, but rather rely on the standard infrastructure (udev) to execute
> module loading, and we should be doing the same.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx>

Sounds reasonable. Applied to for-next, thanks!

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