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Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2016 11:12:45 +0100 From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org> To: Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-clk <linux-clk@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver core: Make Kconfig text for DEBUG_TEST_DRIVER_REMOVE stronger On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 6:09 PM, Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com> wrote: > The current state of driver removal is not great. > CONFIG_DEBUG_TEST_DRIVER_REMOVE finds lots of errors. The help text > currently undersells exactly how many errors this option will find. Add > a bit more description to indicate this option shouldn't be turned on > unless you actually want to debug driver removal. The text can be > changed later when more drivers are fixed up. Indeed, this is failing miserably for e.g. SoC clock drivers using platform_driver_probe(), which are never retried, rendering the complete system useless. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@...ux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds
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