linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net] driver core: auxiliary bus: Fix sysfs creation on bind

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Message-ID: <efab6280-a27b-4ba8-b744-9d1e12bd418e@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2025 10:08:41 +0300
From: Tariq Toukan <ttoukan.linux@...il.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
 Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...dia.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
 Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 Mark Bloch <mbloch@...dia.com>, Gal Pressman <gal@...dia.com>,
 Aya Levin <ayal@...dia.com>, Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...dia.com>,
 Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>, Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>,
 Shay Drory <shayd@...dia.com>, Przemek Kitszel
 <przemyslaw.kitszel@...el.com>, Parav Pandit <parav@...dia.com>,
 Amir Tzin <amirtz@...dia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] driver core: auxiliary bus: Fix sysfs creation on
 bind

On 23/10/2025 9:47, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2025 at 09:19:27AM +0300, Tariq Toukan wrote:
>> From: Amir Tzin <amirtz@...dia.com>
>>
>> In case an auxiliary device with IRQs directory is unbinded, the
>> directory is released, but auxdev->sysfs.irq_dir_exists remains true.
>> This leads to a failure recreating the directory on bind [1].
>>
>> Using the attributes group visibility interface, expose the IRQs
>> attributes group if"f the xarray storing IRQs entries is not empty. Now
>> irq_dir_exists field is redundant and can be removed.
>>
>> [1]
>> [] mlx5_core.sf mlx5_core.sf.2: mlx5_irq_affinity_request:167:(pid 1939):
>>     Failed to create sysfs entry for irq 56, ret = -2
>> [] mlx5_core.sf mlx5_core.sf.2: mlx5_eq_table_create:1195:(pid 1939):
>>     Failed to create async EQs
>> [] mlx5_core.sf mlx5_core.sf.2: mlx5_load:1362:(pid 1939):
>>     Failed to create EQs
>>
>> Fixes: a808878308a8 ("driver core: auxiliary bus: show auxiliary device IRQs")
>> Signed-off-by: Amir Tzin <amirtz@...dia.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Mark Bloch <mbloch@...dia.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@...dia.com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/base/auxiliary.c       |  13 +++-
>>   drivers/base/auxiliary_sysfs.c | 117 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
>>   include/linux/auxiliary_bus.h  |  26 ++++++--
> 
> Why would auxbus patches go through the net tree?
> 

It shouldn't...
Honest mistake passing the argument to my script.