Merge tag 'driver-core-3.13-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core

Pull driver core / sysfs patches from Greg KH:
 "Here's the big driver core / sysfs update for 3.13-rc1.

  There's lots of dev_groups updates for different subsystems, as they
  all get slowly migrated over to the safe versions of the attribute
  groups (removing userspace races with the creation of the sysfs
  files.) Also in here are some kobject updates, devres expansions, and
  the first round of Tejun's sysfs reworking to enable it to be used by
  other subsystems as a backend for an in-kernel filesystem.

  All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
  issues"

* tag 'driver-core-3.13-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (83 commits)
  sysfs: rename sysfs_assoc_lock and explain what it's about
  sysfs: use generic_file_llseek() for sysfs_file_operations
  sysfs: return correct error code on unimplemented mmap()
  mdio_bus: convert bus code to use dev_groups
  device: Make dev_WARN/dev_WARN_ONCE print device as well as driver name
  sysfs: separate out dup filename warning into a separate function
  sysfs: move sysfs_hash_and_remove() to fs/sysfs/dir.c
  sysfs: remove unused sysfs_get_dentry() prototype
  sysfs: honor bin_attr.attr.ignore_lockdep
  sysfs: merge sysfs_elem_bin_attr into sysfs_elem_attr
  devres: restore zeroing behavior of devres_alloc()
  sysfs: fix sysfs_write_file for bin file
  input: gameport: convert bus code to use dev_groups
  input: serio: remove bus usage of dev_attrs
  input: serio: use DEVICE_ATTR_RO()
  i2o: convert bus code to use dev_groups
  memstick: convert bus code to use dev_groups
  tifm: convert bus code to use dev_groups
  virtio: convert bus code to use dev_groups
  ipack: convert bus code to use dev_groups
  ...

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/base/platform.c b/drivers/base/platform.c
index 4f8bef3..47051cd 100644
--- a/drivers/base/platform.c
+++ b/drivers/base/platform.c
@@ -488,6 +488,11 @@ static int platform_drv_probe(struct device *_dev)
 	if (ret && ACPI_HANDLE(_dev))
 		acpi_dev_pm_detach(_dev, true);
 
+	if (drv->prevent_deferred_probe && ret == -EPROBE_DEFER) {
+		dev_warn(_dev, "probe deferral not supported\n");
+		ret = -ENXIO;
+	}
+
 	return ret;
 }
 
@@ -553,8 +558,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(platform_driver_unregister);
 /**
  * platform_driver_probe - register driver for non-hotpluggable device
  * @drv: platform driver structure
- * @probe: the driver probe routine, probably from an __init section,
- *         must not return -EPROBE_DEFER.
+ * @probe: the driver probe routine, probably from an __init section
  *
  * Use this instead of platform_driver_register() when you know the device
  * is not hotpluggable and has already been registered, and you want to
@@ -565,8 +569,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(platform_driver_unregister);
  * into system-on-chip processors, where the controller devices have been
  * configured as part of board setup.
  *
- * This is incompatible with deferred probing so probe() must not
- * return -EPROBE_DEFER.
+ * Note that this is incompatible with deferred probing.
  *
  * Returns zero if the driver registered and bound to a device, else returns
  * a negative error code and with the driver not registered.
@@ -576,6 +579,12 @@ int __init_or_module platform_driver_probe(struct platform_driver *drv,
 {
 	int retval, code;
 
+	/*
+	 * Prevent driver from requesting probe deferral to avoid further
+	 * futile probe attempts.
+	 */
+	drv->prevent_deferred_probe = true;
+
 	/* make sure driver won't have bind/unbind attributes */
 	drv->driver.suppress_bind_attrs = true;