Re: [PATCH v7 3/4] driver core: shut down devices asynchronously

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>]

On Mon, Jul 01, 2024 at 12:57:40PM -0500, stuart hayes wrote:
>> We discussed this before, but there is no summary of it and I of course
>> forgot the conclusion:
>>
>>   - why don't we do this by default?
>
> It is done by default in this version, for devices whose drivers opt-in.
>
> In the previous discussion, you mentioned that you thought "safe" was the
> only sensible option (where "safe" was driver opt-in to async shutdown)...
> that is the default (and only) option with this version.  Greg K-H also
> requested opt-in as well, and suggested that "on" (driver opt-out) could
> be removed.
>
>>   - why is it safe to user enable it?
>
> I guess it isn't necessarily safe, if there are any drivers that can't
> handle their devices shutting down asynchronously. I thought it would be
> nice to be able to enable driver opt-in from user space for testing, before
> changing the default setting for the driver.

I was mostly getting into the contradiction that either we think the
async shutdown is safe everywhere, in which case we don't need a driver
opt-in, or it is not, in which case allowing user to just enabled it
also seems like a bad idea.

> I can correct these lines. I thought that an 80 character line length limit
> was no longer required, and saw another line a few lines above these that was
> even longer... and the checkpatch script didn't flag it either.

checkpatch is unfortunately completely broken, it flags totally harmless
things and doesn't catch other things.  > 80 characters are allowed for
individual lines where it improves readability.  The exact definition
of that depends on the maintainers and reviewers, but outside of
string constants I can't really find anything where it does.