# Re: \[PATCH v2\] pata\_ep93xx: fix deferred probing

- From: Jens Axboe \<axboe@kernel.dk\>
- Date: 2021-05-27 19:03:35 
- List: linux-ide
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-ide/2021/05/16727711
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-ide/2021/03/16727676/t.md

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On 5/27/21 12:39 PM, Sergey Shtylyov wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> On 3/20/21 11:32 PM, Sergey Shtylyov wrote:
> 
>> The driver overrides the error codes returned by platform_get_irq() to
>> -ENXIO, so if it returns -EPROBE_DEFER, the driver would fail the probe
>> permanently instead of the deferred probing.  Propagate the error code
>> upstream, as it should have been done from the start...
>>
>> Fixes: 2fff27512600 ("PATA host controller driver for ep93xx")
>> Signed-off-by: Sergey Shtylyov <redacted>
> 
>    Again, 2 months has passed and no feedback whatsoever... the patch has fell
> thru the cracks?

It'd help if you sent out patches like this in a series, instead of
individual ones, when they are addressing the same issue across
multiple drivers. Makes the risk of them getting lost much smaller.

That said, I'll apply this one, thanks.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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