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Re: [Xen-devel] [Question] Proper location for Linux error code (-EPROBE_DEFER) in Xen
- To: Oleksandr <olekstysh@xxxxxxxxx>
- From: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>
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- Thread-topic: [Xen-devel] [Question] Proper location for Linux error code (-EPROBE_DEFER) in Xen
On 01.08.2019 16:54, Oleksandr wrote:
> On 01.08.19 17:34, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> On 01.08.2019 16:31, Oleksandr wrote:
>>> This is needed for the upcoming V2 of the IPMMU driver (ARM) [1] which
>>> may request
>>> deferred probing (returns -EPROBE_DEFER) depending on what device will
>>> be probed the first
>>> (Root device must be registered before Cache devices. If not the case,
>>> driver will deny further Cache device probes until Root device is
>>> registered).
>>>
>>> As we can't guarantee a fixed pre-defined order for the device nodes in DT,
>>> we need to be ready for the situation where devices being probed
>>> in "any" order. So, framework (drivers/passthrough/arm/iommu.c) will be
>>> modified a bit to be able to handle -EPROBE_DEFER returning by driver.
>> I'm sure this can be had without introducing a new error code.
>
> By reusing existing one (EAGAIN comes to mind)?
For example. Or by using some positive value instead of the (negative)
errno.h ones.
Jan
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