[PATCH v2] pmdomain: fix collision in names when registering

Ahmad Fatoum a.fatoum at pengutronix.de
Tue Dec 16 02:50:45 PST 2025


On 12/16/25 11:47 AM, Maud Spierings via B4 Relay wrote:
> From: Maud Spierings <maudspierings at gocontroll.com>
> 
> After adding the imx8m-blk-ctrl driver errors started appearing about
> the genpd device already being registered.
> 
> incorperate some extra device details in the device name so this
> possible collision goes away.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Maud Spierings <maudspierings at gocontroll.com>

Reviewed-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum at pengutronix.de>

@Sascha, I think this is a candidate for master as this can affect other
setups as well, when there are multiple power domain drivers (e.g. with
SCMI)

Thanks,
Ahmad

> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - Change virt_dev->id into DEVICE_ID_SINGLE to drop the trailing index
>   number.
> - Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251216-genpd_fix-v1-1-b4ca268d3b31@gocontroll.com
> ---
> 
> It wasn't just errors, it started crashing but that is a seperate issue.
> It at least loads normally with this change
> ---
>  drivers/base/power.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/base/power.c b/drivers/base/power.c
> index c71389422a..cffd043627 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/power.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/power.c
> @@ -506,11 +506,11 @@ struct device *genpd_dev_pm_attach_by_id(struct device *dev,
>  	if (!virt_dev)
>  		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
>  
> -	dev_set_name(virt_dev, "genpd");
> +	dev_set_name(virt_dev, "genpd:%u:%s", index, dev_name(dev));
>  	virt_dev->bus = &genpd_bus_type;
>  	virt_dev->parent = dev;
>  	virt_dev->of_node = dev->of_node;
> -	virt_dev->id = index;
> +	virt_dev->id = DEVICE_ID_SINGLE;
>  
>  	ret = device_register(virt_dev);
>  	if (ret) {
> 
> ---
> base-commit: 63898c48611dfe51409ff1f4e1c30de4b2737c48
> change-id: 20251216-genpd_fix-0f1ed7d8cbb2
> 
> Best regards,

-- 
Pengutronix e.K.                  |                             |
Steuerwalder Str. 21              | http://www.pengutronix.de/  |
31137 Hildesheim, Germany         | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0    |
Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686  | Fax:   +49-5121-206917-5555 |




More information about the barebox mailing list