Re: [PATCH 3/3] EDAC: amd64_edac: decide if driver can load successfully early.

[Tejun Heo]

On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 05:01:32PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 11:55:53AM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote:
> <snip needless schooling on driver core>
> 
> > This code is standing in the way of a much more impactful generic
> > driver layer improvement.
> 
> So why not mark it as synchronously loading and forget about it?

Isn't that obvious?  Because hacks like this are likely to cause other
problems down the road and set bad precedences.

-- 
tejun
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