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From: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Cc: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Query on device links
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2020 10:31:59 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7f7d9b37-3f10-fefb-db23-86c8f83e8885@huawei.com> (raw)

Hi guys,

According to "Limitations" section @ 
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/driver-api/device_link.rst#n110, 
for a managed link, lack of the supplier driver may cause indefinite 
delay in probing of the consumer. Is there any way around this?

So I just want the probe order attempt of the supplier and consumer to 
be guaranteed, but the supplier probe may not be successful, i.e. does 
not actually bind.

In my case, I would like to use device_link_add(supplier, consumer, 
DL_FLAG_AUTOPROBE_CONSUMER), but I find the supplier probe may fail (and 
not due to -EPROBE_DEFER), and my consumer remains in limbo.

You may ask my I want this ordering at all - it is because in 
really_probe(), we do the device DMA configure before the actual device 
driver probe, and I just need that ordering to be ensured between devices.

Thanks,
John

             reply	other threads:[~2020-02-06 10:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-06 10:31 John Garry [this message]
2020-02-22  6:55 ` Saravana Kannan
2020-02-24 10:03   ` John Garry

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