Gregory,
On Fri, 11 Mar 2016, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
> On ven., mars 11 2016, Anna-Maria Gleixner <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > The mvneta_percpu_notifier() hotplug callback lacks handling of the
> > CPU_DOWN_FAILED case. That means, if CPU_DOWN_PREPARE failes, the
> > driver is not well configured on the CPU.
> >
> > Add handling for CPU_DOWN_FAILED[_FROZEN] hotplug notifier transition
> > to setup the driver.
>
> I agree that we need to handle this case, however reusing CPU_ONLINE
> case for it seems too much.
Why is that too much? If it does the job, then it's definitely preferrable
over an extra case for a non hotpath error handling operation.
Thanks,
tglx
