From: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
To: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
"Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
driver-core@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver core: reject devices with unregistered buses
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:08:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <afIe495IbAe7EeDt@hovoldconsulting.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DI5Q29QMNVNH.1B2N4VBA2ZVQW@kernel.org>
On Wed, Apr 29, 2026 at 04:52:08PM +0200, Danilo Krummrich wrote:
> On Wed Apr 29, 2026 at 1:33 PM CEST, Johan Hovold wrote:
> > It seems we have differing definitions of "bug", but to me this is
> > clearly a bug in driver core.
>
> I think we do -- you are saying it is a bug that the driver core does not print
> a warning when a caller introduces a bug on its own due to an ordering
> violation.
No, I'm saying that it's a bug in driver core to silently treat a device
that is registered before its bus as a bus-less device.
Johan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-29 15:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-27 10:28 [PATCH] driver core: reject devices with unregistered buses Johan Hovold
2026-04-28 19:09 ` Danilo Krummrich
2026-04-29 10:11 ` Johan Hovold
2026-04-29 11:11 ` Danilo Krummrich
2026-04-29 11:33 ` Johan Hovold
2026-04-29 14:52 ` Danilo Krummrich
2026-04-29 15:08 ` Johan Hovold [this message]
2026-04-29 15:29 ` Danilo Krummrich
2026-04-29 16:00 ` Johan Hovold
2026-04-29 16:18 ` Danilo Krummrich
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