linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v3] drivercore: Add driver probe deferral mechanism

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Date:	Mon, 26 Sep 2011 16:26:34 +0100
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
Cc:	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@...ah.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Manjunath GKondaiah <manjunath.gkondaiah@...aro.org>,
	Dilan Lee <dilee@...dia.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3] drivercore: Add driver probe deferral mechanism

On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 04:12:10PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 03:16:43PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:

> > used but it's not a blocker for anything.  Devices doing this would need
> > some way to figure out if they should -EBUSY or fail otherwise.

> Just to avoid confusion - ITYM -EAGAIN there.  -EBUSY is already used
> by drivers to mean "someone else claimed a resource I need" be it the
> IO region or an IRQ resource...

Yes, I do - sorry.
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