Re: [PATCH] Add documentation on meaning of -EPROBE_DEFER

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Tue Mar 31 2020 - 13:03:21 EST


On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 7:46 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 05:33:55PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 05:01:32PM +0000, Grant Likely wrote:
> > > Add a bit of documentation on what it means when a driver .probe() hook
> > > returns the -EPROBE_DEFER error code, including the limitation that
> > > -EPROBE_DEFER should be returned as early as possible, before the driver
> > > starts to register child devices.
> > >
> > > Also: minor markup fixes in the same file
> >
> > Greg, can we at least for time being have this documented, means applied?
>
> It's the middle of the merge window, you know I can't take anything in
> my trees until after -rc1 is out.

Right.

> I will queue it up then, thanks.

Thank you!

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko