Re: [PATCH] driver core: Avoid pointless deferred probe attempts

[Saravana Kannan]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 2:10 AM Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Saravana,
>
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 12:51 AM Saravana Kannan <saravanak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > There's no point in adding a device to the deferred probe list if we
> > know for sure that it doesn't have a matching driver. So, check if a
> > device can match with a driver before adding it to the deferred probe
> > list.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Thanks for your patch!
>
> > ---
> > Geert,
> >
> > Can you give this a shot for your I2C DMA issue with fw_devlink=on?
>
> Yes, this makes I2C use DMA again on Salvator-XS during kernel boot-up.

Thanks for testing Geert!

> I haven't run any more elaborate tests on other platforms.

Yeah, this change should only go into 5.13 after it gets tested as
part of driver-core-next.

-Saravana