On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 08:14:46AM +0100, Krzysztof Hałasa wrote: > Hi Bjorn, Krzysztof, > > Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > On Fri, Jul 30, 2021 at 10:18:44AM +0200, Krzysztof Hałasa wrote: > >> I'm encountering a problem booting an i.MX6-based device (Gateworks > >> Ventana SBC). This is apparently a known issue: > >> https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/7/16/388 > > > Hi Krzysztof, is this still an issue? > > Well... I'm still using i.MX6 with 5.14 and Krzysiek Wilczyński's "PCI: > Race condition in pci_create_sysfs_dev_files (can't boot)" patch (which > fixes the problem). It seems parts of this patch are now in mainline, > but most of it is still missing. So I guess the problem isn't fixed. > > Perhaps because the DEC Alpha part of the patch is not yet ready? > Krzysztof? > > > e1d3f3268b0e ("PCI/sysfs: Convert "config" to static attribute") and > > similar patches appeared in v5.13, > > Right, but they hadn't fixed the problem. 5.13 was released in June, and > I have started using the patch in August (apparently with pre-5.14 > first, then with final 5.14). Thanks. e1d3f3268b0e and related patches converted individual files ("config", "rom", "vpd", etc) to static attributes, but since the problem you're seeing is with a directory, it's likely different. I opened this bugzilla report to try to keep this from getting lost: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215515 Bjorn
