Re: [PATCH] Add documentation on meaning of -EPROBE_DEFER

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Mar 31 2020 - 12:43:45 EST


On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 05:33:55PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 05:01:32PM +0000, Grant Likely wrote:
> > Add a bit of documentation on what it means when a driver .probe() hook
> > returns the -EPROBE_DEFER error code, including the limitation that
> > -EPROBE_DEFER should be returned as early as possible, before the driver
> > starts to register child devices.
> >
> > Also: minor markup fixes in the same file
>
> Greg, can we at least for time being have this documented, means applied?

It's the middle of the merge window, you know I can't take anything in
my trees until after -rc1 is out.

I will queue it up then, thanks.

greg k-h