[Ksummit-discuss] [TECH TOPIC] Addressing complex dependencies and semantics (v2)

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Fri Aug 5 09:01:43 UTC 2016


On Thursday, August 4, 2016 9:59:30 PM CEST Rob Herring wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 5:20 AM, Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 04, 2016 at 11:50:49AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> >
> >> Nope, it doesn't work that way, sorry.
> >
> >> Nice try, just unwind your initialization properly 
> >
> > Deferred probe is probably the best thing that ever happened for the
> > quality of kernel error handling 
> 
> Now we just need a way to force testing of the remove functions.

Hmm, instead of calling just 'probe', we might first call probe,
then remove, then probe again as a compile-time option.

What could possibly go wrong? ;-)

	Arnd


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