Re: [PATCH v5 0/6] driver core: Improve and cleanup driver_deferred_probe_check_state()

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi John,

On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 10:46 PM John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 12:54 AM Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 06:16:31PM -0700, John Stultz wrote:
> > > The second reverts the default timeout back to 0:
> > >   https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200413204253.84991-1-john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx/
> >
> > If you're reverting the timeout we should revert the regulator change
> > too I think.
>
> Maybe? The main issue for me was my change was clearly breaking users
> with dts with missing dependencies where their setup was working
> before. I sort of feel like having a dtb with missing dependencies is
> less valid than wanting to load module dependencies from userland, but
> they were working first, so we have to keep them happy :) And at least
> now the latter can add the timeout boot argument to make it work.

IOMMU support is optional.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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