Le Fri, 20 May 2022 11:49:14 +0300, Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit : > On Fri, May 20, 2022 at 09:52:41AM +0200, Clément Léger wrote: > > > Also, as a request to unbind this driver would be disasterous to users, > > > I think you should set ".suppress_bind_attrs = true" to prevent the > > > sysfs bind/unbind facility being available. This doesn't completely > > > solve the problem. > > > > Acked. What should I do to make it more robust ? Should I use a > > refcount per pdev and check that in the remove() callback to avoid > > removing the pdev if used ? > > I wonder, if you call device_link_add(ds->dev, miic->dev, DL_FLAG_AUTOREMOVE_CONSUMER), > wouldn't that be enough to auto-unbind the DSA driver when the MII > converter driver unbinds? I looiked at that a bit and I'm not sure how to achieve that cleanly. If I need to create this link, then I need to do it once for the dsa switch device. However, currently, the way I get the references to the MII converter are via the pcs-handle properties which are for each port. So, I'm not sure creating the link multiple times in miic_create() would be ok and also, I'm not sure how to create the link once without adding a specific property which points on the MII converter node and use that to create the link by adding miic_device_add_link() for instance. Do you have any preference ? Thanks, -- Clément Léger, Embedded Linux and Kernel engineer at Bootlin https://bootlin.com