Re: [PATCH 6/8] amd64_edac: enforce synchronous probe

[Dmitry Torokhov]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 10:45:44AM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 12:56:18PM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 03:33:15PM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > > From: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > While testing asynchronous PCI probe on this driver I noticed it failed
> > > so enforce just synchronouse probe for now.  Asynchronous probe is not
> > > used by default and requires userepace intervention.  Patches for its
> > > support will be merged later.
> > > 
> > > The reason async probe fails is that the init call for this driver
> > > relies on probe to have finished for at least one device. This needs to
> > > be addressed before enabling async probe.
> > 
> > I'm still kinda uncomfortable with this both white and black list
> > behavior.  If we're gonna do this, let's please drop the debug options
> > and build proper blacklists; otherwise, this will never be complete
> > and we're gonna left with the in-between situation forever.
> 
> Without the debug options how can we do that? I will definitely not be
> able to go through all the in-tree drivers myself and see if they can be
> asynchronously probed or not. The most I can do is to try enabling the
> option on our side and fixing the drivers/subsystems that fail with
> asynchronous probing. This will be iterative process for some time and
> then we'll drop the debug option and flip the flag to do asynchronous
> probing by default.

By the way, at that point I think we should be able to remove the
FORCE_SYNCHRONOUS option (and maybe PREFER_ASYNCHRONOUS as well?).

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry
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