linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] net: ethernet: dm9000: Handle -EPROBE_DEFER in dm9000_parse

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Date:   Mon, 17 Feb 2020 13:59:53 +0100
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns@...delico.com>
Cc:     Paul Cercueil <paul@...pouillou.net>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Mathieu Malaterre <malat@...ian.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: ethernet: dm9000: Handle -EPROBE_DEFER in
 dm9000_parse_dt()

> Is the EPROBE_DEFER mechanism also working for drivers
> fully compiled into the kernel (I may have been mislead
> since EPROBE_DEFER patches are almost always done to make
> drivers work as modules)?

Yes. It is a generic mechanism and used with all driver probe
functions.

     Andrew