Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] PCI/IOV: Fix race between SR-IOV enable/disable and hotplug

[Lukas Wunner]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2026 at 02:08:11PM +0100, Lukas Wunner wrote:
> However pci_stop_and_remove_bus_device() implicitly unbinds the
> driver before removing the device.  Remind me, what's the need
> to unbind before calling that function?

Never mind, read Günter Röck's e-mail only now.  So this is just
a bandaid to work around the too coarse-grained pci_lock_rescan_remove().

I've been arguing for a while that we need to move to more
fine-grained locking, but it's difficult to get there without
breaking things, it's difficult to make sense of a lot of old code
and it's difficult to allocate time to tech debt problems like this
because employers always want developers to focus on enabling shiny
new features first. :(

Thanks,

Lukas