Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Fix prestera driver fail to probe twice

[Andrew Lunn]

> Prestera is indeed not directly involved in PoE. I wrote a hack to be able to
> get the PoE ports control, for testing my PoE patch series.
> 
> The aim in the future will be to add RJ45 port abstraction.
> The Prestera will get the port abstraction which will get the PoE ports control.
> The prestera driver then might receive an EPROBE_DEFER from it.

O.K, so EPRODE_DEFER has to work in a meaningful way. I'm not sure we
can call a 30 second delay meaningful.

And it is not just PoE. phylink_create() can return EPROBE_DEFER, and
there are probably others.

      Andrew