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Re: [PATCH] scsi: hisi_sas: support deferred probe for v2 hw

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On 2016年12月06日 20:44, John Garry wrote:
> In the hip06 and hip07 SoCs, the interrupt lines from the
> SAS controllers are connected to mbigen hw module [1].
> The mbigen module is probed with module_init, and, as such,
> is not guaranteed to probe before the SAS driver. So we need
> to support deferred probe.
>
> We check for probe deferral in the hw layer probe, so we not
> probe into the main layer and allocate shost, memories, etc.,
> to later learn that we need to defer the probe.
>
> [1] ./Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interrupt-controller/hisilicon,mbigen-v2.txt
>
> Signed-off-by: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Zhangfei Gao <zhangfei.gao@linaro.org>

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[PATCH] scsi: hisi_sas: support deferred probe for v2 hw John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com> - 2016-12-06 13:20 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] scsi: hisi_sas: support deferred probe for v2 hw zhangfei <zhangfei.gao@linaro.org> - 2016-12-07 07:00 +0100

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