Regmap regression in next caused by of_iomap change

Lee Jones lee.jones at linaro.org
Mon Sep 12 01:55:27 PDT 2016


On Thu, 08 Sep 2016, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> On Thursday, September 8, 2016 11:41:12 AM CEST Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Looks like commit 39de2c4275a9 ("mfd: syscon: Make use of of_iomap")
> > makes at least MMC PBIAS regulator stop working on omap3.
> >
> > That's probably because of_syscon_register uses the now unintialized
> > struct resource res to set syscon_config.max_register.
> 
> Looks correct. Lee, please send a revert of that patch to Linus
> along with any other fixes you may have.

No need.  It's not in Mainline.

> > I have a strange deja vu feeling that we've been through this
> > before  See commit ca668f0edfae ("mfd: syscon: Set regmap max_register
> > in of_syscon_register")
> > 
> > Maybe we should add comments there instead?
> 
> I wonder why gcc didn't detect this case. I usually do my
> test builds with -Wmaybe-uninitialized that should have
> caught it but didn't.

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