From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>,
"Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com>,
"Martin K . Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
"James E . J . Bottomley" <jejb@linux.ibm.com>,
"open list:TARGET SUBSYSTEM" <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
Avri Altman <avri.altman@wdc.com>, Bean Huo <huobean@gmail.com>,
Can Guo <cang@codeaurora.org>,
Asutosh Das <asutoshd@codeaurora.org>,
Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>,
Linux PM <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 1/2] driver core: Add ability to delete device links of unregistered devices
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2021 13:19:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJZ5v0g8fbV6ansDQOM7WchbE3tzvd5iFmnvu2wTOu-F4enM0g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YOgdBGBEYNndLLwa@kroah.com>
On Fri, Jul 9, 2021 at 11:55 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jul 09, 2021 at 09:43:40AM +0300, Adrian Hunter wrote:
> > Managed device links are deleted by device_del(). However it is possible to
> > add a device link to a consumer before device_add(), and then discover an
> > error prevents the device from being used. In that case normally references
> > to the device would be dropped and the device would be deleted. However the
> > device link holds a reference to the device, so the device link and device
> > remain indefinitely.
>
> Why are you not just manually removing the link you just created? You
> manually added it, you know something failed so you need to clean up, so
> why not clean this up too?
His changes are needed to do just that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-09 11:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-09 6:43 [PATCH V2 0/2] driver core: Add ability to delete device links of unregistered devices Adrian Hunter
2021-07-09 6:43 ` [PATCH V2 1/2] " Adrian Hunter
2021-07-09 9:55 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-07-09 11:19 ` Rafael J. Wysocki [this message]
2021-07-09 11:28 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2021-07-09 13:18 ` Adrian Hunter
2021-07-09 6:43 ` [PATCH V2 2/2] scsi: ufshcd: Fix device links when BOOT WLUN fails to probe Adrian Hunter
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