Re: [PATCH v2] driver core: Check drivers_autoprobe for all added devices

[Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2025 at 10:23:20AM +0000, Vincent Liu wrote:
> On 14 Oct 2025, at 21:07, Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org> wrote:
> > 
> >> In particular for the PCI devices, only
> >> hot-plugged PCIe devices/VFs should be affected as the default value of
> >> pci/drivers_autoprobe remains 1 and can only be cleared from userland.
> > 
> > I'm not sure what this last sentence is telling us.  Does
> > "pci/drivers_autoprobe" refer to struct pci_sriov.drivers_autoprobe?
> > If so, can you elaborate on the connection with struct
> > subsys_private.drivers_autoprobe, which this patch tests?  I don't see
> > anything in this patch related to pci_sriov.
> 
> No this patch has nothing to do with pci_sriov.drivers_autoprobe, this is
> generic for all (pci) devices. pci/drivers_autoprobe refers to the
> drivers_autoprobe sysfs attribute on the pci bus.
> 
> The last sentence is saying that this setting should only affect hot-plugged
> devices because I think there is no way for pci/drivers_autoprobe to be 0 
> for cold plugged devices? But thinking more about this, I don’t think this
> adds much value to the commit message because the drivers_autoprobe
> is not intended for cold-plugged devices anyway. I’ll remove it.
> 
> > As far as I can tell, this patch is generic with respect to
> > conventional PCI vs PCIe.  If so, I'd use "PCI" everywhere instead of
> > a mix of PCI and PCIe.
> 
> Yes you are right, this is generic. I used PCIe purely because of the
> “hot-plugging”, but happy to use PCI everywhere.
> 
> > Add "()" after function names to make them easily recognizable as
> > functions.
> > 
> > s/respsect/respect/
> > s/but this should be the/which is the/  # maybe? not sure what you intend
> 
> Ok.
> 
> Below is a rephrased commit message to incorporate the feedback.
> 
> Thanks,
> Vincent
> 
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> 
> Subject: [PATCH v2] driver core: Check drivers_autoprobe for all added devices
> 
> When a device is hot-plugged, the drivers_autoprobe sysfs attribute is
> not checked (at least for PCI devices). This means that
> drivers_autoprobe is not working as intended, e.g. hot-plugged PCI
> devices will still be autoprobed and bound to drivers even with
> drivers_autoprobe disabled.
> 
> Make sure all devices check drivers_autoprobe by pushing the
> drivers_autoprobe check into device_initial_probe(). This will only
> affect devices on the PCI bus for now as device_initial_probe() is only
> called by pci_bus_add_device() and bus_probe_device(), but
> bus_probe_device() already checks for autoprobe, so callers of
> bus_probe_device() should not observe changes on autoprobing.
> 
> Any future callers of device_initial_probe() will respect the
> drivers_autoprobe sysfs attribute, which is the intended purpose of
> drivers_autoprobe.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vincent Liu <vincent.liu@nutanix.com>
> 
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20251001151508.1684592-1-vincent.liu@nutanix.com

Thanks, that reads much better to me.