Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 Sep 2021 08:09:05 +0200 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] fw_devlink bug fixes |
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On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 10:44:48PM +0300, Vladimir Oltean wrote: > On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 07:30:04PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > It fixes the real problem where drivers were making the wrong assumption > > that if they registered a device, it would be instantly bound to a > > driver. Drivers that did this were getting lucky, as this was never a > > guarantee of the driver core (think about if you enabled async > > probing, and the mess with the bus specific locks that should be > > preventing much of this) > > Since commit d173a137c5bd ("driver-core: enable drivers to opt-out of > async probe") it is possible to opt out of async probing, and PHY > drivers do opt out of it, at the time of writing.
That's good, but we are talking about system-wide enabling of async probing in the future, which might cause problems here :)
Anyway, let's go with this option for now and Saravana has assured me that he will work on fixing up these drivers/bus to work properly going forward.
thanks,
greg k-h
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