linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net 0/4] net: axienet: Fix deferred probe loop

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Message-ID: <2025062004-sandblast-overjoyed-6fe9@gregkh>
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2025 07:10:39 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Sean Anderson <sean.anderson@...ux.dev>
Cc: Radhey Shyam Pandey <radhey.shyam.pandey@....com>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>,
	"David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Michal Simek <michal.simek@....com>,
	Saravana Kannan <saravanak@...gle.com>,
	Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>,
	Dave Ertman <david.m.ertman@...el.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...nel.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 0/4] net: axienet: Fix deferred probe loop

On Thu, Jun 19, 2025 at 04:05:33PM -0400, Sean Anderson wrote:
> Upon further investigation, the EPROBE_DEFER loop outlined in [1] can
> occur even without the PCS subsystem, as described in patch 4/4. The
> second patch is a general fix, and could be applied even without the
> auxdev conversion.
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250610183459.3395328-1-sean.anderson@linux.dev/

I have no idea what this summary means at all, which isn't a good start
to a patch series :(

What problem are you trying to solve?  What overall solution did you
come up with?  Who is supposed to be reviewing any of this?

totally confused,

greg k-h