Re: [PATCH net] net: phy: reject attach while the PHY driver is in transition

[Maxime Chevallier]

Hi,

On 9/17/26 20:33, Aleksei Sviridkin wrote:
> Fine, v2 will target net-next.
> 
> Out of curiosity, since I will run into this again: is the line
> "needs instrumentation to reproduce -> net-next" about the window
> being unreachable in practice, or about nobody having reported it?

Well there are lots of patches recently that fix bugs that are never
seen, and only show-up if some oddball error path is taken, under
conditions almost impossible to encounter in real life or even
reproduce without instrumenting the code to force these conditions.

> The crash itself came from a real board; the msleep() only made the
> race deterministic instead of occasional.

This is something you should say in the commit log then, it's important
to know this was seen in real life. If that's the case, then yes it's
'net' material instead of 'net-next'.

Maxime