netdev - Re: [PATCH v21 03/23] cxl/port: Arrange for always synchronous endpoint attach

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Message-ID: <692e744be5e1a_261c1100e9@dwillia2-mobl4.notmuch>
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2025 21:08:27 -0800
From: <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
To: <alejandro.lucero-palau@....com>, <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>
CC: Alejandro Lucero <alucerop@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v21 03/23] cxl/port: Arrange for always synchronous
 endpoint attach

alejandro.lucero-palau@ 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>
> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Lucero <alucerop@....com>

I am mostly keeping this patch the same, but removing private.h and
using EXPORT_SYMBOL_FOR_MODULES() to limit the visibility of the export.