On Mon, Jan 20, 2025 at 03:01:16PM +0200, Stanimir Varbanov wrote:
> In case brcmstb PCIe driver and MIP MSI-X interrupt controller
> drivers are built as modules there could be a race in probing.
> To avoid this add a softdep to MIP driver to guarantee that MIP
> driver will be load first.
Maybe this one too? Should this be moved to after the irq_bcm2712_mip
driver is added, but before brcmstb will claim bcm2712? I just want
to avoid bisection problems when possible, and it sounds like if we
lose the race, interrupts might not work as expected?
>
> Signed-off-by: Stanimir Varbanov <svarbanov@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> v4 -> v5:
> - New patch in the series.
>
> drivers/pci/controller/pcie-brcmstb.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/controller/pcie-brcmstb.c b/drivers/pci/controller/pcie-brcmstb.c
> index 03396a9d97be..744fe1a4cf9c 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/controller/pcie-brcmstb.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/controller/pcie-brcmstb.c
> @@ -1997,3 +1997,4 @@ module_platform_driver(brcm_pcie_driver);
> MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
> MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Broadcom STB PCIe RC driver");
> MODULE_AUTHOR("Broadcom");
> +MODULE_SOFTDEP("pre: irq_bcm2712_mip");
> --
> 2.47.0
>
