linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] media: venus: drop bogus probe deferrals

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Message-ID: <9f82ed4b-4bca-d990-22ad-b75492aec36b@oss.qualcomm.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2025 18:06:31 +0530
From: Vikash Garodia <vikash.garodia@....qualcomm.com>
To: Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>,
        Dikshita Agarwal <dikshita.agarwal@....qualcomm.com>,
        Bryan ODonoghue <bod@...nel.org>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>, linux-media@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] media: venus: drop bogus probe deferrals


On 10/17/2025 11:28 AM, Johan Hovold wrote:
> The encoder and decoder platform devices are registered by the venus
> driver as children of the venus device, but even if someone were to mess
> this up no amount of probe deferring is going to conjure up a parent.
> 
> Relatedly, the venus driver sets its driver data before registering the
> child devices and if this ever breaks we want to learn about it by
> failing probe.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>


Reviewed-by: Vikash Garodia <vikash.garodia@....qualcomm.com>