On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 8:53 PM, Frank Rowand [off-list ref] wrote:

I have been defaulting to the position that has been asserted by
the device tree maintainters, that probe deferrals work just fine
for at least the majority of cases (and is the message I have been
sharing in my conference presentations about device tree).  But I
suspect that there is at least a small minority of cases that are not
well served by probe deferral.  (Not to be read as an endorsement of
this specific patch series, just a generic observation.)

Yep, once in a while people still stumble on obscure subsystems and drivers
not supporting probe deferral. Usually they don't fail with a big bang, so
everything seems fine.

E.g. last week's "of_mdiobus_register_phy() and deferred probe"
(https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/10/22/377).

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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