From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from vps0.lunn.ch (vps0.lunn.ch [156.67.10.101]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8194418B0F; Sat, 21 Jun 2025 07:33:18 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=156.67.10.101 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1750491201; cv=none; b=uZKhTuPW9Spg/dDuUJLigAy1K/ZKbiDg1ruA/AHaOzpre2kgU2m4a3T8sY78ClJuOstkZ/Usdgp9RSdgVF+JP8lwoNR/WCeIMRBoS/wUZmiue4v8EIWSMoOylJhkFM9U12WU7SPwZoaaoN7vaN0fYs5tKNJSY/J2Y9ElrPW3FMM= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1750491201; c=relaxed/simple; bh=ZjRtZGj+bTiV0atdKu/UMz/EA8O50jp8926sPWJkLYQ=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=gvKBHBtjmY+NHhEywbkKtCxGfFsk/ck39P/rMrHF8ZaPZnq9qY7We49Qw2cBT+opL3VNG+Lvpx0ThcF0fEUERFKIbHXDxUoY2+qXvB5eXVhEgXFHcUTxnPgfgT77MtQAV/6RD+v8G1PxSlxgVU5bevhDpXl1636KuSymqzQ5KFU= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=lunn.ch; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=lunn.ch; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=lunn.ch header.i=@lunn.ch header.b=zZr2Eyrt; arc=none smtp.client-ip=156.67.10.101 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=lunn.ch Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=lunn.ch Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=lunn.ch header.i=@lunn.ch header.b="zZr2Eyrt" DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=lunn.ch; s=20171124; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Disposition:Content-Type:MIME-Version: References:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:From:Sender:Reply-To:Subject: Date:Message-ID:To:Cc:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-ID:Content-Description:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:References; bh=P6oppky/HuD45K/qSvDG5L56EwYU89EoqMPm448d4Ck=; b=zZr2EyrtjfAoEXFVpYOe75oQ7C h7TTzyrajv6hQX9CQRFer7tonijLaBrMATW2Af3XwfGWeRRSSnYo4QAsOnMN617iU76K89P+BTqKD dvyxUfF6yMdcRPzJ0FGgkLwtXlaTAZ2uEO/Stp7DvKShIXT1kDz50KFkVIhJIh7fBY3Q=; Received: from andrew by vps0.lunn.ch with local (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1uSsin-00GZCR-UD; Sat, 21 Jun 2025 09:33:05 +0200 Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2025 09:33:05 +0200 From: Andrew Lunn To: Sean Anderson Cc: Radhey Shyam Pandey , Andrew Lunn , "David S . Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Jakub Kicinski , Paolo Abeni , netdev@vger.kernel.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman , Michal Simek , Saravana Kannan , Leon Romanovsky , Dave Ertman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ira Weiny , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: [PATCH net 4/4] net: axienet: Split into MAC and MDIO drivers Message-ID: <16ebbe27-8256-4bbf-ad0a-96d25a3110b2@lunn.ch> References: <20250619200537.260017-1-sean.anderson@linux.dev> <20250619200537.260017-5-sean.anderson@linux.dev> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20250619200537.260017-5-sean.anderson@linux.dev> On Thu, Jun 19, 2025 at 04:05:37PM -0400, Sean Anderson wrote: > Returning EPROBE_DEFER after probing a bus may result in an infinite > probe loop if the EPROBE_DEFER error is never resolved. That sounds like a core problem. I also thought there was a time limit, how long the system will repeat probes for drivers which defer. This seems like the wrong fix to me. Andrew