linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] EDAC: amd64_edac: decide if driver can load successfully early.

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Date:	Thu, 19 Mar 2015 09:57:41 -0700
From:	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Doug Thompson <dougthompson@...ssion.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-edac@...r.kernel.org,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@....samsung.com>,
	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>,
	Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	"Luis R . Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...e.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] EDAC: amd64_edac: decide if driver can load
 successfully early.

On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 12:12:41PM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 05:01:32PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 11:55:53AM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > <snip needless schooling on driver core>
> > 
> > > This code is standing in the way of a much more impactful generic
> > > driver layer improvement.
> > 
> > So why not mark it as synchronously loading and forget about it?
> 
> Isn't that obvious?  Because hacks like this are likely to cause other
> problems down the road and set bad precedences.

In all fairness platform_driver_probe() does pretty much the same and
forces us to mark thus drivers with PROBE_FORCE_SYNCHRONOUS as well. And
there are quite a few of them:

dtor@...r-ws:~/kernel/work$ grep -r "platform_driver_probe" drivers/ |
wc -l
186

What makes edac unusual is that PCI bus is hot-pluggable and thus PCI
drivers are rarely one-shot.

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry
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