On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 01:55:19PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:

On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 10:45 PM, Li Yang [off-list ref] wrote:

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-       if (IS_ERR(i2c_imx->pinctrl)) {
+       /* bailout on -ENOMEM or -EPROBE_DEFER, continue for other errors */
+       if (PTR_ERR(i2c_imx->pinctrl) == -ENOMEM ||
+                       PTR_ERR(i2c_imx->pinctrl) == -EPROBE_DEFER) {

This is one of the evils of deferred probe: you never know if
something will eventually turn up. It feels wrong to bail out
on deferred probe...

I have no better idea though.
Acked-by

Linus, proper ack next time please, so patchwork will pick it up
automatically.

Li Yang: There have been some other changes to the imx driver. Could you
rebase against my for-next or for-4.5 and add Linus' ack? Thanks!