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Some devices might need to be probed and bound successfully before the kernel boot sequence can finish and move on to init/userspace. For example, a network interface might need to be bound to be able to mount a NFS rootfs. With fw_devlink=on by default, some of these devices might be blocked from probing because they are waiting on a optional supplier that doesn't have a driver. While fw_devlink will eventually identify such devices and unblock the probing automatically, it might be too late by the time it unblocks the probing of devices. For example, the IP4 autoconfig might timeout before fw_devlink unblocks probing of the network interface. This function is available to temporarily try and probe all devices that have a driver even if some of their suppliers haven't been added or don't have drivers. The drivers can then decide which of the suppliers are optional vs mandatory and probe the device if possible. By the time this function returns, all such "best effort" probes are guaranteed to be completed. If a device successfully probes in this mode, we delete all fw_devlink discovered dependencies of that device where the supplier hasn't yet probed successfully because they have to be optional dependencies. This also means that some devices that aren't needed for init and could have waited for their optional supplier to probe (when the supplier's module is loaded later on) would end up probing prematurely with limited functionality. So call this function only when boot would fail without it. Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be> Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220601070707.3946847-5-saravanak@google.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> |
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README
Linux kernel
============
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.