Since https://github.com/linux-surface/kernel/pull/152 we should not require the serial drivers to be built in any more. In essence, the PR causes the SAM driver to return EPROBE_DEFER when the serial device is not ready.
Specifics on how to best handle this (i.e., which function should actually return EPROBE_DEFER) are still to be determined, but for now https://github.com/linux-surface/kernel/pull/152 should provide a better workaround that (at least in theory and based on limited testing) fixes this problem as well. So let's test if this holds up in practice.
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Since https://github.com/linux-surface/kernel/pull/152 we should not require the serial drivers to be built in any more. In essence, the PR causes the SAM driver to return EPROBE_DEFER when the serial device is not ready.
Specifics on how to best handle this (i.e., which function should actually return
EPROBE_DEFER) are still to be determined, but for now https://github.com/linux-surface/kernel/pull/152 should provide a better workaround that (at least in theory and based on limited testing) fixes this problem as well. So let's test if this holds up in practice.