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Add an additional bit flag to the device_private struct named "dead". This additional flag provides a guarantee that when a device_del is executed on a given interface an async worker will not attempt to attach the driver following the earlier device_del call. Previously this guarantee was not present and could result in the device_del call attempting to remove a driver from an interface only to have the async worker attempt to probe the driver later when it finally completes the asynchronous probe call. One additional change added was that I pulled the check for dev->driver out of the __device_attach_driver call and instead placed it in the __device_attach_async_helper call. This was motivated by the fact that the only other caller of this, __device_attach, had already taken the device_lock() and checked for dev->driver. Instead of testing for this twice in this path it makes more sense to just consolidate the dev->dead and dev->driver checks together into one set of checks. Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.