linux-kernel - Re: [Patch 3/3] Driver core: Per-subsystem multithreaded probing.

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Date:	Mon, 16 Oct 2006 19:04:05 +0200
From:	Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>
To:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Cc:	Duncan Sands <duncan.sands@...h.u-psud.fr>,
	Greg K-H <greg@...ah.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Patch 3/3] Driver core: Per-subsystem multithreaded probing.

On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 11:56:29 -0400 (EDT),
Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu> wrote:

> You would only be changing it for the multithreaded path, which itself is 
> very new.  But this is all hypothetical anyway...

I think we're talking about the same thing :)

> So the question is what do do if someone calls device_register() or
> device_add() with dev->driver set.  If everything succeeds except for
> creation of the symlinks, should the device remain registered?  The driver
> core has been vacillating about this recently.  I'm not sure what the 
> right answer is.

If dev->driver has not been set and symlink creation failed, we'll end
up with an unbound but registered device. Maybe the same should happen
if dev->driver had been set before (register the device but reset
dev->driver to NULL)?

> However the kerneldoc for device_attach() should be updated to mention
> that when multithreaded probing is used, a driver might end up getting
> bound even though the return value is 0.

Agreed.
 
> P.S.: If you initialize probe_task to ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM) or something 
> similar, then you could eliminate one of the calls to bus_for_each_drv() 
> in device_attach().

I'll do a new patch series tomorrow.

-- 
Cornelia Huck
Linux for zSeries Developer
Tel.: +49-7031-16-4837, Mail: cornelia.huck@...ibm.com
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