On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 12:15 PM, Bjørn Mork <[email protected]> wrote:
> usbnet_link_change will call schedule_work and should be
> avoided if bind is failing. Otherwise we will end up with
> scheduled work referring to a netdev which has gone away.
>
> Instead of making the call conditional, we can just defer
> it to usbnet_probe, using the driver_info flag made for
> this purpose.
So looking at this, I wonder...
Why is that FLAG_LINK_INTR thing not just always used?
The _only_ thing that FLAG_LINK_INTR does is to cause
usbnet_link_change(dev, 0, 0);
to be called after network device attach. That doesn't seem to be controversial.
Looking at some examples, we have ax88179_178a.c that doesn't set the
flag, but instead does that usbnet_link_change() call at the end of
ax88179_bind().
There are a few drivers that seem to never call that
usbnet_link_change() at all, and don't have that FLAG_LINK_INTR flag.
Would they break?
Stupid grep:
git grep -lw FLAG_ETHER |
xargs grep -L FLAG_LINK_INTR |
xargs grep -L usbnet_link_change |
sed 's:drivers/net/usb/::'
gives
cdc_eem.c
ch9200.c
cx82310_eth.c
int51x1.c
rndis_host.c
so maybe that FLAG_LINK_INTR si required.
Why is it called "FLAG_LINK_INTR" anyway? There doesn't seem to be
anything "INTR" about it.
Linus
