Re: Revert "tpci: unbind driver in test_assign_resources()"

Tang Yizhou <[email protected]> Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:04:41 +0800
Newsgroups gmane.linux.ltp
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 30/7/26 4:53 pm, Cyril Hrubis wrote:
> Hi!
>>> We recently confirmed this commit does cause a flood of I/O errors on
>>> the root filesystem in our testing, leaving the machine unusable until
>>> reboot.
>>>
>>> Given that, we'd appreciate the community helping to decide soon
>>> whether the revert is warranted.
>>
>> Are you 100% sure that is caused by the patch you want to revert?
>> Because the patch looked ok to me when I reviewed. We need to have
>> more context and info around the issue which has been generated in
>> order to avoid any workaround for a system/kernel bug.
> 
> AFAIK the testing module grabs first device available on the system and
> uses it for testing. Which means that if you are unlucky it's your
> network card, or disk controller and you force reload it on a live
> system.
> 
> And honestly the PCI test should be either rewritten and cleaned up to
> do something more sensible or just removed. As it is it's too fragile.
> 

Thank you for your feedback. It is very helpful to us.

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Best Regards,
Yi


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