soc: imx: gpcv2: removing and probing fails

[Stefan Agner]

On 2018-01-09 15:24, Lucas Stach wrote:
> Am Sonntag, den 07.01.2018, 11:48 +0100 schrieb Stefan Agner:
>> Hi Andrew,
>>
>> I noticed that the driver fails when removing and probing again. As far
>> as I can see due to duplicate add of the platform devices.
>>
>> As far as I can tell the driver should register the remove callback and
>> do a platform_device_unregister on the newly created platform devices.
>> However, as far as I can tell we don't hold on to a reference to them...
>> I guess we could keep references in imx_gpcv2_probe, but maybe there is
>> an easier way?
> 
> The GPC v1 driver adds the necessary device dependency between the
> power domain devices and the GPC parent device. See the
> device_link_add() in imx_pgc_power_domain_probe().

Note that despite device_link_add, GPC v1 seems to cause issue with
CONFIG_DEBUG_TEST_DRIVER_REMOVE=y:
https://marc.info/?l=linux-arm-kernel&m=151544599904423&w=4

(sorry, I made it confusing, by adding a stack trace when using GPC v1
in the gpcv2 thread...)

--
Stefan


> 
> Probably something similar can be done to the GPC v2 driver.
> 
> Regards,
> Lucas