Re: [PATCH] driver core: fixup reversed deferred probe order

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Jun 12 2012 - 20:33:55 EST


On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 05:03:38PM -0700, Kuninori Morimoto wrote:
>
> Hi Greg
>
> Thank you for checking this patch
>
> > > If driver requests probe deferral,
> > > it will be added to deferred_probe_pending_list
> > > by driver_deferred_probe_add(), but, it used list_add().
> > > Because of that, deferred probe will be run as reversed order.
> > > This patch uses list_add_tail(), and solved this issue.
> >
> > Is this causing a problem with 3.5-rc2 on some systems, so it needs to
> > get into 3.5-final, or can it wait for 3.6?
>
> ALSA SoC sound card detection order was broken by this issue in v3.5-rcX
> (on some board).
> So, I'm happy if it was included in v3.5-final.

Ok, thanks for letting me know, will queue it up for that release.

greg k-h
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