Re: [PATCH v3 4/5] driver core: Allow the constification of device attributes

From: Danilo Krummrich

Date: Tue May 26 2026 - 11:38:44 EST


On Tue May 26, 2026 at 5:25 PM CEST, Mark Brown wrote:
> I've now got another bisect which comes out to another driver core
> commit 1137838865bf (driver core: Use mod_delayed_work to prevent lost
> deferred probe work), I don't know that that is an accurate result
> either but it does look like there's something fishy in this area.

When I saw your first mail I did already suspect that it might be this one, as
it is a race that might or might not trigger.

I applied [1] to driver-core-next today, so it should hopefully be fixed for
tomorrow's linux-next release.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/driver-core/20260526145824.501263-1-dakr@xxxxxxxxxx/T/#u