Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4 0/8] Make fw_devlink=on more forgiving | From | Marek Szyprowski <> | Date | Mon, 8 Feb 2021 09:40:13 +0100 |
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Hi Saravana,
On 05.02.2021 23:26, Saravana Kannan wrote: > There are a lot of devices/drivers where they never have a struct device > created for them or the driver initializes the hardware without ever > binding to the struct device. > > This series is intended to avoid any boot regressions due to such > devices/drivers when fw_devlink=on and also address the handling of > optional suppliers. > > Patch 1 and 2 addresses the issue of firmware nodes that look like > they'll have struct devices created for them, but will never actually > have struct devices added for them. For example, DT nodes with a > compatible property that don't have devices added for them. > > Patch 3 and 4 allow for handling optional DT bindings. > > Patch 5 sets up a generic API to handle drivers that never bind with > their devices. > > Patch 6 through 8 update different frameworks to use the new API.
This patchset fixes probing issue observed on various Exynos based boards even with commit c09a3e6c97f0 ("soc: samsung: pm_domains: Convert to regular platform driver") reverted. Thanks!
Tested-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Best regards
-- Marek Szyprowski, PhD Samsung R&D Institute Poland
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