[PATCH net 0/4] net: axienet: Fix deferred probe loop

Sean Anderson sean.anderson at linux.dev
Fri Jun 20 08:41:52 PDT 2025


On 6/20/25 01:10, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2025 at 04:05:33PM -0400, Sean Anderson wrote:
>> Upon further investigation, the EPROBE_DEFER loop outlined in [1] can
>> occur even without the PCS subsystem, as described in patch 4/4. The
>> second patch is a general fix, and could be applied even without the
>> auxdev conversion.
>> 
>> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250610183459.3395328-1-sean.anderson@linux.dev/
> 
> I have no idea what this summary means at all, which isn't a good start
> to a patch series :(
> 
> What problem are you trying to solve?

See patch 4/4.

> What overall solution did you come up with?

See patch 4/4.

> Who is supposed to be reviewing any of this?

Netdev. Hence "PATCH net".

And see [1] above for background. I will quote it more-extensively next time.

--Sean





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