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From:   Kai Vehmanen <kai.vehmanen@linux.intel.com>
To:     Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] sound: Use -EPROBE_DEFER instead of i915 module
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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