Re: Problem with component helpers and probe deferral in 4.5-rc1

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 05:59:13PM +0000, Jon Medhurst (Tixy) wrote:

I believe I've found a problem with the component helpers and/or how drivers use them. I discovered this whilst trying to get ARM's HDLCD driver [1] working on 4.5-rc1, however I believe that code is following a pattern used by drivers already in 4.5 and the problem isn't specific to it. This is what I have observed...

Hmm, it all looks plausible, and I'm again left wondering how the code passed testing over the last year (I've been running this code for ages both on iMX6 and Dove, where deferred probing does happen.)

Your patch looks like the right thing to do, so I'll add it to the component tree shortly - it should end up in linux-next in a few days time.

Thanks.