Messages in this thread | | | From | Andy Shevchenko <> | Date | Wed, 14 Nov 2018 10:45:22 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v1 1/5] drivercore: Revert "deferral race condition fix" |
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On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 2:34 AM Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> wrote: > > 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?
Have anyone in possession of Davinchi tested most recent kernel with this revert?
> > 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 :(
Sorry, guys, I confused a nit myself. The bug is there, but exxplanation is not fully corrent, indeed. I'll come back with more details later.
-- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko
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