On Fri, Aug 04, 2023 at 05:05:17PM +0200, Petr Pavlu wrote: > This series converts the mlx4 drivers to use auxiliary bus, similarly to > how mlx5 was converted [1]. The first 6 patches are preparatory changes, > the remaining 4 are the final conversion. > > Initial motivation for this change was to address a problem related to > loading mlx4_en/mlx4_ib by mlx4_core using request_module_nowait(). When > doing such a load in initrd, the operation is asynchronous to any init > control and can get unexpectedly affected/interrupted by an eventual > root switch. Using an auxiliary bus leaves these module loads to udevd > which better integrates with systemd processing. [2] Neat, I didn't realize that was a pain point for distros. Jason
