driver core: prevent deferred probe with platform_driver_probe
Prevent drivers relying on platform_driver_probe from requesting
deferred probing in order to avoid further futile probe attempts (either
the driver has been unregistered or its probe function has been set to
platform_drv_probe_fail when probing is retried).
Note that several platform drivers currently return subsystem errors
from probe and that these can include -EPROBE_DEFER (e.g. if a gpio
request fails).
Add a warning to platform_drv_probe that can be used to catch drivers
that inadvertently request probe deferral while using
platform_driver_probe.
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <jhovold@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
diff --git a/include/linux/platform_device.h b/include/linux/platform_device.h
index ce8e4ff..16f6654 100644
--- a/include/linux/platform_device.h
+++ b/include/linux/platform_device.h
@@ -178,6 +178,7 @@
int (*resume)(struct platform_device *);
struct device_driver driver;
const struct platform_device_id *id_table;
+ bool prevent_deferred_probe;
};
#define to_platform_driver(drv) (container_of((drv), struct platform_driver, \