linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] fw

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Message-ID: <20210923194448.tnzkdvigknjrgoqn@skbuf>
Date:   Thu, 23 Sep 2021 22:44:48 +0300
From:   Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Saravana Kannan <saravanak@...gle.com>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
        kernel-team@...roid.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] fw_devlink bug fixes

On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 07:30:04PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> It fixes the real problem where drivers were making the wrong assumption
> that if they registered a device, it would be instantly bound to a
> driver.  Drivers that did this were getting lucky, as this was never a
> guarantee of the driver core (think about if you enabled async
> probing, and the mess with the bus specific locks that should be
> preventing much of this)

Since commit d173a137c5bd ("driver-core: enable drivers to opt-out of
async probe") it is possible to opt out of async probing, and PHY
drivers do opt out of it, at the time of writing.