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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1603111146310.3657@nanos>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 11:48:40 +0100 (CET)
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@...e-electrons.com>
cc: Anna-Maria Gleixner <anna-maria@...utronix.de>,
Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com>,
netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
rt@...utronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: mvneta: Add missing hotplug notifier transition
Gregory,
On Fri, 11 Mar 2016, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
> On ven., mars 11 2016, Anna-Maria Gleixner <anna-maria@...utronix.de> wrote:
>
> > The mvneta_percpu_notifier() hotplug callback lacks handling of the
> > CPU_DOWN_FAILED case. That means, if CPU_DOWN_PREPARE failes, the
> > driver is not well configured on the CPU.
> >
> > Add handling for CPU_DOWN_FAILED[_FROZEN] hotplug notifier transition
> > to setup the driver.
>
> I agree that we need to handle this case, however reusing CPU_ONLINE
> case for it seems too much.
Why is that too much? If it does the job, then it's definitely preferrable
over an extra case for a non hotpath error handling operation.
Thanks,
tglx
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