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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/10] driver core: Do not continue searching for drivers if deferred probe is used
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2021 08:44:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YL8RxPEMCDTXnPDg@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1-v1-324b2038f212+1041f1-vfio3a_jgg@nvidia.com>

On Mon, Jun 07, 2021 at 09:55:43PM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> Once a driver has been matched and probe() returns with -EPROBE_DEFER the
> device is added to a deferred list and will be retried later.
> 
> At this point __device_attach_driver() should stop trying other drivers as
> we have "matched" this driver and already scheduled another probe to
> happen later.
> 
> Return the -EPROBE_DEFER from really_probe() instead of squashing it to
> zero. This is similar to the code at the top of the function which
> directly returns -EPROBE_DEFER.
> 
> It is not really a bug as, AFAIK, we don't actually have cases where
> multiple drivers can bind.

We _do_ have devices that multiple drivers can bind to.  Are you sure
you did not just break them?

Why are you needing to change this?  What is it helping?  What problem
is this solving?

thanks,

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-06-08  6:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-08  0:55 [PATCH 00/10] Allow mdev drivers to directly create the vfio_device Jason Gunthorpe
2021-06-08  0:55 ` [Intel-gfx] " Jason Gunthorpe
2021-06-08  0:55 ` [PATCH 01/10] driver core: Do not continue searching for drivers if deferred probe is used Jason Gunthorpe
2021-06-08  5:51   ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-06-08  6:44   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2021-06-08 12:16     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-06-08 13:13       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-06-08 13:53         ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-06-08  7:35   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-06-08 12:17     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-06-08  0:55 ` [PATCH 02/10] driver core: Pull required checks into driver_probe_device() Jason Gunthorpe
2021-06-08  5:59   ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-06-08 12:21     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-06-08  0:55 ` [PATCH 03/10] driver core: Flow the return code from ->probe() through to sysfs bind Jason Gunthorpe
2021-06-08  6:07   ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-06-08 23:53     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-06-08  6:47   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-06-08 12:30     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-06-08 13:16       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-06-08 14:03         ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-06-08  0:55 ` [PATCH 04/10] driver core: Don't return EPROBE_DEFER to userspace during " Jason Gunthorpe
2021-06-08  6:14   ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-06-08  7:37   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-06-08  0:55 ` [PATCH 05/10] driver core: Export device_driver_attach() Jason Gunthorpe
2021-06-08  6:19   ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-06-08 12:33     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-06-08  0:55 ` [PATCH 06/10] vfio/mdev: Remove CONFIG_VFIO_MDEV_DEVICE Jason Gunthorpe
2021-06-08  0:55   ` [Intel-gfx] " Jason Gunthorpe
2021-06-08  6:20   ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-06-08  6:20     ` [Intel-gfx] " Christoph Hellwig
2021-06-11 12:40   ` Cornelia Huck
2021-06-11 12:40     ` [Intel-gfx] " Cornelia Huck
2021-06-14 12:35     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-06-14 12:35       ` [Intel-gfx] " Jason Gunthorpe
2021-06-14 12:35       ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-06-08  0:55 ` [PATCH 07/10] vfio/mdev: Allow the mdev_parent_ops to specify the device driver to bind Jason Gunthorpe
2021-06-08  6:21   ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-06-08  0:55 ` [PATCH 08/10] vfio/mtty: Convert to use vfio_register_group_dev() Jason Gunthorpe
2021-06-08  0:55 ` [PATCH 09/10] vfio/mdpy: " Jason Gunthorpe
2021-06-08  0:55 ` [PATCH 10/10] vfio/mbochs: " Jason Gunthorpe
2021-06-08  6:22 ` [PATCH 00/10] Allow mdev drivers to directly create the vfio_device Christoph Hellwig
2021-06-08  6:22   ` [Intel-gfx] " Christoph Hellwig
2021-06-14 14:34 ` Kirti Wankhede
2021-06-14 14:34   ` [Intel-gfx] " Kirti Wankhede
2021-06-14 14:34   ` Kirti Wankhede
2021-06-14 14:36   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-06-14 14:36     ` [Intel-gfx] " Jason Gunthorpe
2021-06-14 14:36     ` Jason Gunthorpe

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