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SubjectRe: [PATCH] soc: renesas: rmobile-sysc: Set OF_POPULATED and absorb reset handling
Hi Sebastian,

On Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 4:44 PM Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 05, 2021 at 02:33:19PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > Currently, there are two drivers binding to the R-Mobile System
> > Controller (SYSC):
> > - The rmobile-sysc driver registers PM domains from a core_initcall(),
> > and does not use a platform driver,
> > - The rmobile-reset driver registers a reset handler, and does use a
> > platform driver.
> >
> > As fw_devlink only considers devices, it does not know that the
> > rmobile-sysc driver is ready. Hence if fw_devlink is enabled, probing
> > of on-chip devices that are part of the SYSC PM domain is deferred until
> > the optional rmobile-reset has been bound, which may happen too late
> > (for e.g. the system timer on SoCs lacking an ARM architectured or
> > global timer), or not at all, leading to complete system boot failures.
> >
> > Fix this by:
> > 1. Setting the OF_POPULATED flag for the SYSC device node after
> > successful initialization.
> > This will make of_link_to_phandle() ignore the SYSC device node as
> > a dependency, making consumer devices probe again.
> > 2. Move reset handling from its own driver into the rmobile-sysc
> > driver.
> > This is needed because setting OF_POPULATED prevents the
> > rmobile-reset driver from binding against the same device.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
> > ---
> > To be queued in renesas-devel for v5.13.
>
> Acked-by: Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org>

In the meantime, this has method been abandoned, and this patch was
superseded by "[PATCH v2] soc: renesas: rmobile-sysc: Mark fwnode when
PM domain is added"
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20210216123958.3180014-1-geert+renesas@glider.be/

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds

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