On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 08:19:00PM +0100, Alexander Holler wrote: > Am 21.08.2014 16:02, schrieb Thierry Reding: > > > Anyway, those are all fairly standard reasons for where deferred probe > > triggers, and since I do like deferred probe for it's simplicity and > > reliability I'd rather not try to work around it if boot time is all > > that people are concerned about. > > It's neither simple nor reliable. It's non deterministic brutforcing > while making it almost impossible to identify real errors.
It's horrible, yes. > In my humble opinion the worst way to solve something. I'm pretty sure > if I would have suggest such a solution, the maintainer crowd would have > eaten me without cooking. We didn't have a better workable solution at the time. Having a hack that got boards booting was considered better than not having them boot. I don't remember people being particularly enthralled by the idea. Thanks, Mark. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
