linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Add documentation on meaning of -EPROBE

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Message-ID: <CAHp75VfHHdn46t852RfUbo9Y5mMU8vn-kvDo3yx656TwQyuSiw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 31 Mar 2020 20:03:10 +0300
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        Grant Likely <grant.likely@....com>,
        Linux Documentation List <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        nd <nd@....com>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Saravana Kannan <saravanak@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add documentation on meaning of -EPROBE_DEFER

On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 7:46 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 05:33:55PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 05:01:32PM +0000, Grant Likely wrote:
> > > Add a bit of documentation on what it means when a driver .probe() hook
> > > returns the -EPROBE_DEFER error code, including the limitation that
> > > -EPROBE_DEFER should be returned as early as possible, before the driver
> > > starts to register child devices.
> > >
> > > Also: minor markup fixes in the same file
> >
> > Greg, can we at least for time being have this documented, means applied?
>
> It's the middle of the merge window, you know I can't take anything in
> my trees until after -rc1 is out.

Right.

> I will queue it up then, thanks.

Thank you!

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko