linux-kernel - Re: [RESEND PATCH] spi: of: do explicitly request modules for of-registered devices

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Message-ID: <20150325213605.GO3572@sirena.org.uk>
Date:	Wed, 25 Mar 2015 14:36:05 -0700
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
Cc:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>,
	linux-spi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH] spi: of: do explicitly request modules for
 of-registered devices

On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 01:32:22PM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> Trying to register an SPI device asynchronously (via async_schedule() call)
> results in an ugly complaint from request_module() warning about potential
> deadlock (because request_module tries to wait for async works to
> complete, the caller is also an async work in this case).

Applied, thanks.

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