On Friday, June 17, 2016 04:07:38 PM Lukas Wunner wrote: > On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 02:54:56PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 12:36 PM, Lukas Wunner <lukas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 08:26:52AM +0200, Marek Szyprowski wrote: > > > > From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx> > > > We also have such a functional dependency for Thunderbolt on Macs: > > > On resume from system sleep, the PCIe hotplug ports may not resume > > > before the thunderbolt driver has reestablished the PCI tunnels. > > > Currently this is enforced by quirk_apple_wait_for_thunderbolt() > > > in drivers/pci/quirks.c. It would be good if we could represent > > > this dependency using something like Rafael's approach instead of > > > open coding it, however one detail in Rafael's patches is problematic: > > > > > > > New links are added by calling device_link_add() which may happen > > > > either before the consumer device is probed or when probing it, in > > > > which case the caller needs to ensure that the driver of the > > > > supplier device is present and functional and the DEVICE_LINK_PROBE_TIME > > > > flag should be passed to device_link_add() to reflect that. > > > > > > The thunderbolt driver cannot call device_link_add() before the > > > PCIe hotplug ports are bound to a driver unless we amend portdrv > > > to return -EPROBE_DEFER for Thunderbolt hotplug ports on Macs > > > if the thunderbolt driver isn't loaded. > > > > > > It would therefore be beneficial if device_link_add() can be > > > called even *after* the consumer is bound. > > > > I don't quite follow. > > > > Who's the provider and who's the consumer here? > > thunderbolt.ko is the supplier. But it binds to the children of the ports that are supposed to be its consumers? Why is that even expected to work? Thanks, Rafael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
