[PATCH 0/37] PCI/MSI: Enforce explicit IRQ vector management by removing devres auto-free

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2026 at 11:30:28AM +0100, Philipp Stanner wrote:
> On Tue, 2026-02-24 at 11:12 +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 24, 2026 at 08:39:43AM +0100, Philipp Stanner wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2026-02-24 at 13:14 +0900, Simon Richter wrote:

...

> > > If I could design it from scratch I would probably try to tell users to
> > > use the unmanaged versions instead of revoking the devres consequence.
> > 
> > +many.

> hm?

I'm supporting you with many hands up (more than I possess)!

> > > Devres is actually about your consequence always happening whenever the
> > > driver unloads, for whatever reason.
> > 
> > I believe you meant "unbinds". The device<-->driver link can be broken
> > without unloading the driver.
> 
> Yes, thx for pointing that out. Greg KH AFAIK always calls it "driver
> detach".

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko