Re: [PATCH net] driver core: auxiliary bus: Fix sysfs creation on bind

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, Oct 23, 2025 at 09:19:27AM +0300, Tariq Toukan wrote:
> From: Amir Tzin <amirtz@nvidia.com>
> 
> In case an auxiliary device with IRQs directory is unbinded, the
> directory is released, but auxdev->sysfs.irq_dir_exists remains true.
> This leads to a failure recreating the directory on bind [1].
> 
> Using the attributes group visibility interface, expose the IRQs
> attributes group if"f the xarray storing IRQs entries is not empty. Now
> irq_dir_exists field is redundant and can be removed.
> 
> [1]
> [] mlx5_core.sf mlx5_core.sf.2: mlx5_irq_affinity_request:167:(pid 1939):
>    Failed to create sysfs entry for irq 56, ret = -2
> [] mlx5_core.sf mlx5_core.sf.2: mlx5_eq_table_create:1195:(pid 1939):
>    Failed to create async EQs
> [] mlx5_core.sf mlx5_core.sf.2: mlx5_load:1362:(pid 1939):
>    Failed to create EQs
> 
> Fixes: a808878308a8 ("driver core: auxiliary bus: show auxiliary device IRQs")
> Signed-off-by: Amir Tzin <amirtz@nvidia.com>
> Reviewed-by: Mark Bloch <mbloch@nvidia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
> ---
>  drivers/base/auxiliary.c       |  13 +++-
>  drivers/base/auxiliary_sysfs.c | 117 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
>  include/linux/auxiliary_bus.h  |  26 ++++++--

Why would auxbus patches go through the net tree?

confused,

greg k-h