linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drivercore: Add driver probe deferral mechanism

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Date:	Tue, 5 Jul 2011 11:35:37 -0600
From:	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
Cc:	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivercore: Add driver probe deferral mechanism

On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 11:17:46AM -0600, Grant Likely wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> wrote:
>> > On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 10:28:37AM -0600, Grant Likely wrote:
>> >> On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org> wrote:
>> >> > On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 17:50, Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >> I wonder if doing this all from a workqueue in the first place is going
>> >> >> to cause problems as probe isn't normally done this way at all.
>> >> >
>> >> > Yeah, I would expect unforeseen problems with the async thread too.
>> >> > It's probably all solvable, but it sounds troublesome to find out if
>> >> > things go wrong.
>> >> >
>> >> > We have sync hooks (BUS_NOTIFY_*) where any kind of code can subscribe
>> >> > to when devices get added or get bound to a driver. Can't the code
>> >> > that relies on later hookups to already existing devices/bindings not
>> >> > just plug into that?
>> >>
>> >> I tried that.  It resulted in a lot of complexity that each driver
>> >> needs to implement correctly which is why I started looking for a
>> >> different way to go about it.
>> >
>> > No, the bus that wants this just has to do it, not the drivers
>> > themselves, right?
>>
>> It's not about the bus_type, and there is nothing that the bus can do
>> to solve this problem because it the dependencies are completely
>> orthogonal to the bus.  ie. what does an i2c bus know about the audio
>> path to a codec?  The problem must be solved at the driver scope.
>
> Ok, let's look at your next implementation and see how it goes.

Okay, thanks.  I'll get it posted soon.

g.
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