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SubjectRe: [PATCH v6 02/15] i2c: acpi: Use acpi_dev_ready_for_enumeration() helper
On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 05:53:59PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> The clk and regulator frameworks expect clk/regulator consumer-devices
> to have info about the consumed clks/regulators described in the device's
> fw_node.
>
> To work around cases where this info is not present in the firmware tables,
> which is often the case on x86/ACPI devices, both frameworks allow the
> provider-driver to attach info about consumers to the clks/regulators
> when registering these.
>
> This causes problems with the probe ordering wrt drivers for consumers
> of these clks/regulators. Since the lookups are only registered when the
> provider-driver binds, trying to get these clks/regulators before then
> results in a -ENOENT error for clks and a dummy regulator for regulators.
>
> To ensure the correct probe-ordering the ACPI core has code to defer the
> enumeration of consumers affected by this until the providers are ready.
>
> Call the new acpi_dev_ready_for_enumeration() helper to avoid
> enumerating / instantiating i2c-clients too early.
>
> Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@kernel.org>
> Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>

Acked-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>

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