Add a bit of documentation on what it means when a driver .probe() hook
returns the -EPROBE_DEFER error code, including the limitation that
-EPROBE_DEFER should be returned as early as possible, before the driver
starts to register child devices.
Also: minor markup fixes in the same file
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200327170132.17275-1-grant.likely@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Get rid of those, by marking a literal block as such:
Documentation/driver-api/gpio/driver.rst:425: WARNING: Unexpected indentation.
Documentation/driver-api/gpio/driver.rst:423: WARNING: Inline emphasis start-string without end-string.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/8356b02547087979f57cb71fbefb5e5f636c78f4.1583250595.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The sync_state() driver callback was added recently, but the
documentation was missing. Adding it now.
Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191011191521.179614-4-saravanak@google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The audience for the Kernel driver-model is clearly Kernel hackers.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> # ice driver changes
Mauro Carvalho Chehab