Re: [PATCH RFC 0/2] driver core: Add ability to delete device links of unregistered devices

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On Wed, Jul 07, 2021 at 08:29:46PM +0300, Adrian Hunter wrote:
> Hi
> 
> There is an issue with the SCSI UFS driver when the optional
> BOOT well-known LUN fails to probe, which is not a fatal error.
> The issue is that the device and its "managed" device link do not
> then get deleted.  The device because the device link has a
> reference to it.  The device link because it can only be deleted
> by device_del(), but device_add() was never called, so device_del()
> never will be either.

How was a link created for something that never had device_add() called
on it?  Who is doing that?

thanks,

greg k-h



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