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gpiolib: Bind gpio_device to a driver to enable fw_devlink=on by default
There are multiple instances of GPIO devictree nodes of the form:
foo {
compatible = "acme,foo";
...
gpio0: gpio0@xxxxxxxx {
compatible = "acme,bar";
...
gpio-controller;
};
gpio1: gpio1@xxxxxxxx {
compatible = "acme,bar";
...
gpio-controller;
};
...
}
bazz {
my-gpios = <&gpio0 ...>;
}
Case 1: The driver for "foo" populates struct device for these gpio*
nodes and then probes them using a driver that binds with "acme,bar".
This lines up with how DT nodes with the "compatible" property are
generally converted to struct devices and then registered with driver
core to probe them. This also allows the gpio* devices to hook into all
the driver core capabilities like runtime PM, probe deferral,
suspend/resume ordering, device links, etc.
Case 2: The driver for "foo" doesn't populate its child device nodes
with "compatible" property and instead just loops through its child
nodes and directly registers the GPIOs with gpiolib without ever
populating a struct device or binding a driver to it.
Drivers that follow the case 2 cause problems with fw_devlink=on. This
is because fw_devlink will prevent bazz from probing until there's a
struct device that has gpio0 as its fwnode (because bazz lists gpio0 as
a GPIO supplier). Once the struct device is available, fw_devlink will
create a device link between with gpio0 as the supplier and bazz as the
consumer. After this point, the device link will prevent bazz from
probing until its supplier (the gpio0 device) has bound to a driver.
Once the supplier is bound to a driver, the probe of bazz is triggered
automatically.
Finding and refactoring all the instances of drivers that follow case 2
will cause a lot of code churn and it not something that can be done in
one shot. Examples of such instances are [1] [2].
This patch works around this problem and avoids all the code churn by
simply creating a stub driver to bind to the gpio_device. Since the
gpio_device already points to the GPIO device tree node, this allows all
the consumers to continue probing when the driver follows case 2.
If/when all the old drivers are refactored, we can revert this patch.
[1] - https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201014191235.7f71fcb4@xhacker.debian/
[2] - https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/e28e1f38d87c12a3c714a6573beba6e1@kernel.org/
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: Jisheng Zhang <Jisheng.Zhang@synaptics.com>
Cc: Kever Yang <kever.yang@rock-chips.com>
Fixes: e590474 ("driver core: Set fw_devlink=on by default")
Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com>- Loading branch information