Re: [PATCH] driver core: Make Kconfig text for DEBUG_TEST_DRIVER_REMOVE stronger

From	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH] driver core: Make Kconfig text for DEBUG_TEST_DRIVER_REMOVE stronger
Date	2016-10-31 13:30 +0100
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Hi Greg,

On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 1:21 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 11:12:45AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 6:09 PM, Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com> wrote:
>> > The current state of driver removal is not great.
>> > CONFIG_DEBUG_TEST_DRIVER_REMOVE finds lots of errors. The help text
>> > currently undersells exactly how many errors this option will find. Add
>> > a bit more description to indicate this option shouldn't be turned on
>> > unless you actually want to debug driver removal. The text can be
>> > changed later when more drivers are fixed up.
>>
>> Indeed, this is failing miserably for e.g. SoC clock drivers using
>> platform_driver_probe(), which are never retried, rendering the complete
>> system useless.
>
> Why are they never retried?

Because platform_driver_probe() is meant for non-hotpluggable devices,
and unregisters the platform driver immediately if probe fails.
See also the comments for __platform_driver_probe():

 * Note that this is incompatible with deferred probing.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

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Re: [PATCH] driver core: Make Kconfig text for DEBUG_TEST_DRIVER_REMOVE  stronger Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> - 2016-10-31 11:20 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] driver core: Make Kconfig text for DEBUG_TEST_DRIVER_REMOVE  stronger Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> - 2016-10-31 13:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] driver core: Make Kconfig text for DEBUG_TEST_DRIVER_REMOVE  stronger Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> - 2016-10-31 15:20 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] driver core: Make Kconfig text for  DEBUG_TEST_DRIVER_REMOVE stronger Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-10-31 16:10 +0100
        Re: [PATCH] driver core: Make Kconfig text for  DEBUG_TEST_DRIVER_REMOVE stronger Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-10-31 16:10 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] driver core: Make Kconfig text for  DEBUG_TEST_DRIVER_REMOVE stronger Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-10-31 13:30 +0100

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