Re: [PATCH] scsi: hisi_sas: support deferred probe for v2 hw

[zhangfei]

On 2016å12æ06æ 20:44, John Garry wrote:
> In the hip06 and hip07 SoCs, the interrupt lines from the
> SAS controllers are connected to mbigen hw module [1].
> The mbigen module is probed with module_init, and, as such,
> is not guaranteed to probe before the SAS driver. So we need
> to support deferred probe.
>
> We check for probe deferral in the hw layer probe, so we not
> probe into the main layer and allocate shost, memories, etc.,
> to later learn that we need to defer the probe.
>
> [1] ./Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interrupt-controller/hisilicon,mbigen-v2.txt
>
> Signed-off-by: John Garry <john.garry@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Zhangfei Gao <zhangfei.gao@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks