netdev - Re: [PATCH v20 02/22] cxl/port: Arrange for always synchronous endpoint attach

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Message-ID: <20251112145744.0000595f@huawei.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2025 14:57:44 +0000
From: Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.cameron@...wei.com>
To: <alejandro.lucero-palau@....com>
CC: <linux-cxl@...r.kernel.org>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	<dan.j.williams@...el.com>, <edward.cree@....com>, <davem@...emloft.net>,
	<kuba@...nel.org>, <pabeni@...hat.com>, <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	<dave.jiang@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v20 02/22] cxl/port: Arrange for always synchronous
 endpoint attach

On Mon, 10 Nov 2025 15:36:37 +0000
alejandro.lucero-palau@....com wrote:

> From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
> 
> Make it so that upon return from devm_cxl_add_endpoint() that
> cxl_mem_probe() can assume that the endpoint has had a chance to complete
> cxl_port_probe().
> 
> I.e. cxl_port module loading has completed prior to device registration.
> 
> MODULE_SOFTDEP() is not sufficient for this purpose, but a hard link-time
> dependency is reliable.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.cameron@...wei.com>