Re: [PATCH] memory: atmel-ebi: Allow deferred probing

[Krzysztof Kozlowski]

On 28/05/2026 16:44, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> On 5/4/26 19:48, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:59:30 +0200, Alexander Dahl wrote:
>>> After removing of_platform_default_populate() calls the atmel-ebi driver
>>> was affected by deferred probing.  platform_driver_probe() is
>>> incompatible with deferred probing.  This led to atmel-ebi driver
>>> eventually not being probed on at91 sam9x60-curiosity and other sam9x60
>>> based boards.  Subsequently the nand-controller driver (nand-controller
>>> being a child node of ebi) on that platform was not probed and thus raw
>>> NAND flash was inaccessible, preventing devices to boot with rootfs on
>>> raw NAND flash (e.g. with UBI/UBIFS).
>>>
>>> [...]
>>
>> Applied, thanks!
>>
>> [1/1] memory: atmel-ebi: Allow deferred probing
>>       https://git.kernel.org/krzk/linux-mem-ctrl/c/754d60ad1c91895be0bc7d771fbf9fb3c9448640
> 
> Lo! What's the status of this regression fix? It seems to be sitting in
> next for a while already. To me as an outsider it looks like this should
> be on track to get it merged for -rc6, as that's when Linus ideally
> wants all regressions fixed; but it looks a bit like this is destined to
> be merged in the next merge window. But I might be entirely wrong here
> -- or I'm right and there are good reasons why the next merge window is
> better here.

Thanks for pinging. This indeed deserves fixing in current RC and I
completely missed that. Or applied on wrong branch and forgot that it is
a fix. I sent RC fix pull request with this now.

Best regards,
Krzysztof