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From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
To: Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Introduce deferred probing
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 10:14:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150413081431.GE9742@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1428627766-17178-1-git-send-email-sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com>

On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 03:02:42AM +0200, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote:
> As expected, the Lenovo ix4 has an poor-man's GPIO expander (74x163)
> connected by (guess what) GPIO bitbang SPI. This causes driver probing
> to fail when the GPIO expander is probed before GPIO SPI driver.

Hard to get this right without deferred probing. I agree that we reached
the point where deferred probing gets necessary.

Sascha

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2015-04-13  8:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-10  1:02 Sebastian Hesselbarth
2015-04-10  1:02 ` [PATCH 1/4] base: " Sebastian Hesselbarth
2015-04-13  6:54   ` Sascha Hauer
2015-04-13 14:26     ` Sebastian Hesselbarth
2015-04-10  1:02 ` [PATCH 2/4] gpio: Return -EPROBE_DEFER on gpio_get_num() Sebastian Hesselbarth
2015-04-10  1:02 ` [PATCH 3/4] OF: gpio: Silence error message on -EPROBE_DEFER Sebastian Hesselbarth
2015-04-10  1:02 ` [PATCH 4/4] led: gpio: Properly deal with deferred probing Sebastian Hesselbarth
2015-04-13  8:14 ` Sascha Hauer [this message]

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