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From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
To: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com>,
"James E . J . Bottomley" <jejb@linux.ibm.com>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Avri Altman <avri.altman@wdc.com>,
Bean Huo <huobean@gmail.com>, Can Guo <cang@codeaurora.org>,
Asutosh Das <asutoshd@codeaurora.org>,
linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V5] scsi: ufshcd: Fix device links when BOOT WLUN fails to probe
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2021 23:21:00 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq1pmumvvce.fsf@ca-mkp.ca.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a1c9bac8-b560-b662-f0aa-58c7e000cbbd@intel.com> (Adrian Hunter's message of "Fri, 6 Aug 2021 16:04:41 +0300")
Adrian,
> Managed device links are deleted by device_del(). However it is
> possible to add a device link to a consumer before device_add(), and
> then discovering an error prevents the device from being used. In that
> case normally references to the device would be dropped and the device
> would be deleted. However the device link holds a reference to the
> device, so the device link and device remain indefinitely (unless the
> supplier is deleted).
Applied to 5.15/scsi-staging, thanks!
--
Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-10 3:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-16 11:44 [PATCH V4 0/2] driver core: Add ability to delete device links of unregistered devices Adrian Hunter
2021-07-16 11:44 ` [PATCH V4 1/2] driver core: Prevent warning when removing a device link from unregistered consumer Adrian Hunter
2021-07-21 15:29 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-07-16 11:44 ` [PATCH V4 2/2] scsi: ufshcd: Fix device links when BOOT WLUN fails to probe Adrian Hunter
2021-07-17 18:02 ` Avri Altman
2021-08-02 5:45 ` Adrian Hunter
2021-08-02 7:03 ` Avri Altman
2021-08-04 15:33 ` Adrian Hunter
2021-08-05 21:49 ` Bart Van Assche
2021-08-06 2:50 ` Martin K. Petersen
2021-08-06 12:59 ` Adrian Hunter
2021-08-06 13:04 ` [PATCH V5] " Adrian Hunter
2021-08-10 3:21 ` Martin K. Petersen [this message]
2021-08-17 3:17 ` Martin K. Petersen
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