Re: [PATCH v1 1/5] drivercore: Revert "deferral race condition fix"
From: Mark Brown
Date: Tue Nov 13 2018 - 19:34:25 EST
On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 06:11:26PM +0200, Peter Ujfalusi wrote:
> if we revert the commit then the original issue will re-surfaces. afaik
> it was not only audio which hit the 'last driver to be probed from the
> deferred list would never probe, unless we provoke the kernel to load
> additional module, or remove/reload the module' issue.
Right, aren't we just going to be swapping one bug for another?
> Do I understand correctly that in your case you have two modules
> (dwc3-pci and extcon-intel-mrfld) in a deferred probe loop, iow both of
> the drivers returns -EPROBE_DEFER and they just spin?
> If both is deferring, how this supposed to work?
I'm struggling to follow the original explanation too :(
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