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SubjectRe: [PATCH 4.20 129/183] net: sfp: do not probe SFP module before were attached
On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 10:11:42PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>4.20-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
>
>------------------
>
>From: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
>
>[ Upstream commit b5bfc21af5cb3d53f9cee0ef82eaa43762a90f81 ]
>
>When we probe a SFP module, we expect to be able to call the upstream
>device's module_insert() function so that the upstream link can be
>configured. However, when the upstream device is delayed, we currently
>may end up probing the module before the upstream device is available,
>and lose the module_insert() call.
>
>Avoid this by holding off probing the module until the SFP bus is
>properly connected to both the SFP socket driver and the upstream
>driver.
>
>Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
>Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
>Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

This one got fixed by 87454b6edc1b0143fdb3d9853285477e95af74a4 .

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Thanks,
Sasha

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