[GIT PULL] Driver core fixes for 5.8-rc6

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu Jul 16 2020 - 11:30:11 EST


The following changes since commit 9ebcfadb0610322ac537dd7aa5d9cbc2b2894c68:

Linux 5.8-rc3 (2020-06-28 15:00:24 -0700)

are available in the Git repository at:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core.git tags/driver-core-5.8-rc6

for you to fetch changes up to 2451e746478a6a6e981cfa66b62b791ca93b90c8:

driver core: Avoid deferred probe due to fw_devlink_pause/resume() (2020-07-10 15:20:38 +0200)

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Driver core fixes for 5.8-rc6

Here are 3 driver core fixes for 5.8-rc6.

They resolve some issues found with the deferred probe code for some
types of devices on some embedded systems. They have been tested a
bunch and have been in linux-next for a while with no reported issues.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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Saravana Kannan (3):
driver core: Don't do deferred probe in parallel with kernel_init thread
driver core: Rename dev_links_info.defer_sync to defer_hook
driver core: Avoid deferred probe due to fw_devlink_pause/resume()

drivers/base/base.h | 1 -
drivers/base/core.c | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
drivers/base/dd.c | 5 -----
include/linux/device.h | 5 +++--
4 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)