Re: [PATCH v2 01/12] device: property: delay device-driver matches

From	Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH v2 01/12] device: property: delay device-driver matches
Date	2015-07-16 22:30 +0200
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On Wed, Jul 01, 2015 at 11:40:56AM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:

> Delay matches of platform devices until late_initcall, when we are sure
> that all built-in drivers have been registered already. This is needed
> to prevent deferred probes because of some dependencies' drivers not
> having registered yet.

I have to say I'm still not 100% clear that special casing platform
devices makes sense here - I can see that platform devices are usually
the first devices to instantiate but there are other kinds of devices
and it's not obvious what the benefit of specifically picking out
platform devices as opposed to just deferring all devices is.

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Re: [PATCH v2 01/12] device: property: delay device-driver matches Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> - 2015-07-16 22:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v2 01/12] device: property: delay device-driver matches "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> - 2015-07-17 01:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v2 01/12] device: property: delay device-driver matches Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> - 2015-07-17 02:10 +0200

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