Re: [PATCH] soc: qcom: pmic_glink: Fix boot when QRTR=m

[Johan Hovold]

On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 04:38:35PM +0100, Johan Hovold wrote:

> I took a closer look at this and indeed we do have code that triggers a
> reprobe of a device in case there was a successful probe while the
> device was probing.
> 
> This was introduced by commit 58b116bce136 ("drivercore: deferral race
> condition fix") and the workaround for the reprobe-loop bug that hack
> led to is to not return -EPROBE_DEFER after registering child devices as
> no one managed to come up with a proper fix. This was documented here:
> 
> 	fbc35b45f9f6 ("Add documentation on meaning of -EPROBE_DEFER")
> 
> But please spell this out in some more detail in the commit message, and
> add a Fixes and CC stable tag.

And please update the commit summary as I've been booting with QRTR=m
all along just fine. I guess the issue is if you have pmic_glink
built-in or in the initramfs but forgot to include qrtr or similar?

Johan