netdev - Re: [PATCH v1 0/3] Bring back driver_deferred_probe_check

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Date:   Thu, 28 Jul 2022 09:28:50 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Saravana Kannan <saravanak@...gle.com>
Cc:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        Kevin Hilman <khilman@...nel.org>,
        Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>,
        Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, naresh.kamboju@...aro.org,
        kernel-team@...roid.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/3] Bring back driver_deferred_probe_check_state()
 for now

On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 11:50:08AM -0700, Saravana Kannan wrote:
> More fixes/changes are needed before driver_deferred_probe_check_state()
> can be deleted. So, bring it back for now.
> 
> Greg,
> 
> Can we get this into 5.19? If not, it might not be worth picking up this
> series. I could just do the other/more fixes in time for 5.20.

Wow, no, it is _WAY_ too late for 5.19 to make a change like this,
sorry.

What is so broken that we need to revert these now?  I could do so for
5.20-rc1, and then backport to 5.19.y if that release is really broken,
but this feels odd so late in the cycle.

thanks,

greg k-h