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Date:   Mon, 30 May 2022 11:38:04 +0200
From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:     Saravana Kannan <saravanak@...gle.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v1 0/9] deferred_probe_timeout logic clean up

Hi Saravana,

On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 10:15 AM Saravana Kannan <saravanak@...gle.com> wrote:
> This series is based on linux-next + these 2 small patches applies on top:
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220526034609.480766-1-saravanak@google.com/
>
> A lot of the deferred_probe_timeout logic is redundant with
> fw_devlink=on.  Also, enabling deferred_probe_timeout by default breaks
> a few cases.
>
> This series tries to delete the redundant logic, simplify the frameworks
> that use driver_deferred_probe_check_state(), enable
> deferred_probe_timeout=10 by default, and fixes the nfsroot failure
> case.
>
> Patches 1 to 3 are fairly straightforward and can probably be applied
> right away.
>
> Patches 4 to 9 are related and are the complicated bits of this series.
>
> Patch 8 is where someone with more knowledge of the IP auto config code
> can help rewrite the patch to limit the scope of the workaround by
> running the work around only if IP auto config fails the first time
> around. But it's also something that can be optimized in the future
> because it's already limited to the case where IP auto config is enabled
> using the kernel commandline.

Thanks for your series!

> Yoshihiro/Geert,
>
> If you can test this patch series and confirm that the NFS root case
> works, I'd really appreciate that.

On Salvator-XS, Micrel KSZ9031 Gigabit PHY probe is no longer delayed
by 9s after applying the two earlier patches, and the same is true
after applying this series on top.
Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>

I will do testing on more boards, but that may take a while, as we're
in the middle of the merge window.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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