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

- From: Sergey Shtylyov \<hidden\>
- Date: 2021-05-27 19:10:23 
- List: linux-ide
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-ide/2021/05/16727712
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-ide/2021/03/16727676/t.md

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On 5/27/21 10:03 PM, Jens Axboe 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?

   Sorry for the wrong tenses -- forgot to re-read after editing. :-)

> 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's what I try to do,. generally. Not sure how these 3 patches
ended up being all on their own... :-/

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

   Thanx! :-)

MBR, Sergey
```