linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] USB: ohci-omap: defer probe if PHY is missing

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Date:   Tue, 3 Jan 2017 17:51:43 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@....fi>
Cc:     Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
        Felipe Balbi <balbi@...nel.org>, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-omap@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: ohci-omap: defer probe if PHY is missing

On Mon, Jan 02, 2017 at 10:53:55PM +0200, Aaro Koskinen wrote:
> Defer probe if PHY is missing. E.g. on Nokia 770 several modules needs
> to be loaded to get the PHY going and ohci-omap should wait for those.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@....fi>

Is this a new bug?  The 770 has been around for forever, why has this
not been a problem before now?

thanks,

greg k-h