Re: [PATCH] hwmon/coretemp: Simplify platform device antics
From: Thorsten Leemhuis
Date: Thu Dec 01 2022 - 10:02:12 EST
Hi, this is your Linux kernel regression tracker. I wondered what
happened to this regression fix, as things looks stalled from here --
but maybe I'm missing something.
On 11.11.22 22:37, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 04:20:25PM +0000, Robin Murphy wrote:
>> Coretemp's vestigial platform driver is odd. All the real work is done
>> globally by the initcall and CPU hotplug notifiers, while the "driver"
>> effectively just wraps an allocation and the registration of the hwmon
>> interface in a long-winded round-trip through the driver core. The whole
>> logic of dynamically creating and destroying platform devices to bring
>> the interfaces up and down is fatally flawed right away, since it
>> notifier from a platform bus notifier.
> [...]
>> I haven't been able to fully test hotplug since I only have a
>> single-socket Intel system to hand.
> Someone with access to hardware will have to validate this.
That afaics has happened.
> For both subject and description, please avoid terms like "antics",
> "odd", or "questionable". Please describe the problem in neutral terms.
Robin, did you take care of that?
Ciao, Thorsten (wearing his 'the Linux kernel's regression tracker' hat)
P.S.: As the Linux kernel's regression tracker I deal with a lot of
reports and sometimes miss something important when writing mails like
this. If that's the case here, don't hesitate to tell me in a public
reply, it's in everyone's interest to set the public record straight.
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