Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] sound: Use -EPROBE_DEFER instead of i915 module loading.
Hi,
On Wed, 19 Jul 2023, Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
Explicitly loading i915 becomes a problem when upstreaming the new intel driver for Tiger Lake and higher graphics (xe). By loading i915, it doesn't wait for driver load of xe, and will fail completely before it loads.
-EPROBE_DEFER has to be returned before any device is created in probe(), otherwise the removal of the device will cause EPROBE_DEFER to try again in an infinite loop.
thanks, series looks good to me now. We'll need to adopt the new gpu_bind parameter in a number of CI systems (where we test without i915/xe), but this looks perfectly doable.
I'll give my
Reviewed-by: Kai Vehmanen kai.vehmanen@linux.intel.com
... for the hdac_i915.c changes. For AVS and SOF, I'd ask for some more review time to allow Cezary, Pierre et al to weigh in. I don't personally recall e.g. where we've used CONFIG_SOF_FORCE_PROBE_WORKQUEUE and do we have grounds to keep it even if workqueue is no longer set for HDA codec support.
Br, Kai
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