Re: [PATCH v2] cpu/hotplug: Do not bail-out in DYING/STARTING sections

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Wed May 25 2022 - 12:53:11 EST


On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 05:05:36PM +0100, Vincent Donnefort wrote:
> The DYING/STARTING callbacks are not expected to fail. However, as reported
> by Derek, drivers such as tboot are still free to return errors within
> those sections. In that case, there's nothing the hotplug machinery can do,
> so let's just proceed and log the failures.
>

I'm confused. Why isn't this a driver bug?