Re: [PATCH v4 2/3] driver core: add deferring probe reason to devices_deferred property

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 11:23 AM Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> /sys/kernel/debug/devices_deferred property contains list of deferred devices.
> This list does not contain reason why the driver deferred probe, the patch
> improves it.
> The natural place to set the reason is probe_err function introduced recently,
> ie. if probe_err will be called with -EPROBE_DEFER instead of printk the message
> will be attached to deferred device and printed when user read devices_deferred
> property.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v4:
>   - removed NULL check before kfree,
>   - coding style tweaking.
> v3:
>   - adjusted deferred_devs_show, to accept newline ended messages,
>   - changed conditonal check to positive,
>   - added R-b by Andy.
> v2:
>   - changed __deferred_probe_set_msg args - like in __dev_printk, fits better,
>   - use kasprintf instead of bunch of code,
>   - keep consistent format of devices_deferred lines,
>   - added R-Bs (again I hope changes above are not against it).
> ---
> ---
>  drivers/base/base.h |  3 +++
>  drivers/base/core.c |  9 +++++----
>  drivers/base/dd.c   | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++-
>  3 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/base/base.h b/drivers/base/base.h
> index 7a419a7a6235..effbd5e7f9f1 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/base.h
> +++ b/drivers/base/base.h
> @@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ struct device_private {
>         struct klist_node knode_driver;
>         struct klist_node knode_bus;
>         struct list_head deferred_probe;
> +       char *deferred_probe_msg;

Many drivers will never use this, so is the memory overhead justified?

>         struct device *device;
>  };