Re: [PATCH] drm/bridge: anx7625: Prevent endless probe loop

From: rfoss
Date: Tue May 23 2023 - 13:18:40 EST


From: Robert Foss <rfoss@xxxxxxxxxx>

On Thu, 18 May 2023 15:39:02 -0400, Nícolas F. R. A. Prado wrote:
> During probe, the driver registers i2c dummy devices and populates the
> aux bus, which registers a device for the panel. After doing that, the
> driver can still defer probe if needed. This ordering of operations is
> troublesome however, because the deferred probe work will retry probing
> all pending devices every time a new device is registered. Therefore, if
> modules need to be loaded in order to satisfy the dependencies for this
> driver to complete probe, the kernel will stall, since it'll keep trying
> to probe the anx7625 driver, but never succeed, given that modules would
> only be loaded after the deferred probe work completes.
>
> [...]

Applied, thanks!

[1/1] drm/bridge: anx7625: Prevent endless probe loop
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm-misc/commit/?id=1464e48d69ab



Rob