linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 13/33] mtd: rawnand: fsl_elbc: Let .probe retry if local bus is missing

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Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2024 19:19:44 +0100
From: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>
To: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>, kernel@...gutronix.de, Richard
 Weinberger <richard@....at>, Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@...com>, Martin
 Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@...glemail.com>, Geert Uytterhoeven
 <geert+renesas@...der.be>, Heiko Stuebner <heiko@...ech.de>, Pali
 Rohár <pali@...nel.org>, linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-spi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 13/33] mtd: rawnand: fsl_elbc: Let .probe retry if
 local bus is missing

Hi Uwe,

u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de wrote on Mon, 22 Jan 2024 19:07:08 +0100:

> If during probe fsl_lbc_ctrl_dev is NULL that might just be because the
> fsl_lbc driver didn't bind yet. So return -EPROBE_DEFER in this case to
> make the driver core retry probing later.

Despite the probable usefulness of this change, I don't see any
relationship with the current series. So unless there is a good reason
I might take this one through the nand tree.

Also, what about a Fixes/Cc: stable tag here?

> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>

Thanks,
Miquèl