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

[Greg KH]

On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 11:01:43AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> 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? ;-)

Ooooh, that would be fun to see what blows up, anyone want to try it?

greg k-h