On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 08:19:00PM +0100, Alexander Holler wrote:

Am 21.08.2014 16:02, schrieb Thierry Reding:

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Anyway, those are all fairly standard reasons for where deferred probe
triggers, and since I do like deferred probe for it's simplicity and
reliability I'd rather not try to work around it if boot time is all
that people are concerned about.

It's neither simple nor reliable. It's non deterministic brutforcing 
while making it almost impossible to identify real errors.

It's horrible, yes.

In my humble opinion the worst way to solve something. I'm pretty sure 
if I would have suggest such a solution, the maintainer crowd would have 
eaten me without cooking.

We didn't have a better workable solution at the time. Having a hack
that got boards booting was considered better than not having them boot.
I don't remember people being particularly enthralled by the idea.

Thanks,
Mark.
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