From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-7.2 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07DECC433EF for ; Fri, 24 Sep 2021 06:09:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC81B61107 for ; Fri, 24 Sep 2021 06:09:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S244129AbhIXGKy (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Sep 2021 02:10:54 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:37872 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S244155AbhIXGKm (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Sep 2021 02:10:42 -0400 Received: by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BD8B460E97; Fri, 24 Sep 2021 06:09:07 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1632463748; bh=SnjyYdXnFlvhpBR3KEpK7jManzF2IVx0BI0qSH/0KQI=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=TLiG7cw/7S6qdenYBIID5vtPj9GjGDT4edzaDmJIUgjpacqEQDHkl3ZB2H6qjwIfm pXwV+Ghe+VxJdENbJEFPfOXgDhdkakZ/gpUKr2lBZcnIyw9m+/Ggz1mMEXjXBA7u9P s/bBL236u1NqQ3RsIBRXjkPpjAvtgg6a5vf+AWQw= Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2021 08:09:05 +0200 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Vladimir Oltean Cc: Saravana Kannan , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Andrew Lunn , Heiner Kallweit , Russell King , "David S. Miller" , Jakub Kicinski , Len Brown , Geert Uytterhoeven , kernel-team@android.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] fw_devlink bug fixes Message-ID: References: <20210915170940.617415-1-saravanak@google.com> <20210923194448.tnzkdvigknjrgoqn@skbuf> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20210923194448.tnzkdvigknjrgoqn@skbuf> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org 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