From patchwork Wed May  2 17:09:17 2012
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Subject: Change linking order of SPI and MTD.
Date: Wed, 02 May 2012 07:09:17 -0000
From: Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com>
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To: "Shawn J. Goff" <shawn7400@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Shawn J. Goff <shawn7400@gmail.com> wrote:

>> Could EPROBE_DEFER help in this case?
>
> I hadn't known about EPROBE_DEFER until now. If it does help,
> that's probably a better solution. I'll look into it, but it'll be
> at least a few days before I'm able to spend time on it.

If you have a chance, please try the patch below:


--- a/drivers/mtd/ubi/build.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/ubi/build.c
@@ -1223,7 +1223,7 @@ static int __init ubi_init(void)

                mtd = open_mtd_device(p->name);
                if (IS_ERR(mtd)) {
-                       err = PTR_ERR(mtd);
+                       err = -EPROBE_DEFER;
                        goto out_detach;
                }