[PATCH] soc: brcmstb: Only register SoC device on STB platforms

[Olof Johansson]

On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 10:27 AM, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 01/12/2018 10:21 AM, Olof Johansson wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 10:19 AM, Olof Johansson <olof at lixom.net> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 7:27 AM, Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla at arm.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 12/01/18 12:58, Thierry Reding wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 12:12:11PM +0000, Sudeep Holla wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 12/01/18 11:39, Sudeep Holla wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 09/01/18 14:54, Thierry Reding wrote:
>>>>>>>> From: Thierry Reding <treding at nvidia.com>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> After moving the SoC device initialization to an early initcall in
>>>>>>>> commit f780429adfbc ("soc: brcmstb: biuctrl: Move to early_initcall"),
>>>>>>>> the Broadcom STB SoC device is registered on all platforms if support
>>>>>>>> for the device is enabled in the kernel configuration.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> This causes an additional SoC device to appear on platforms that already
>>>>>>>> register a native one. In case of Tegra the STB SoC device is registered
>>>>>>>> as soc0 (with totally meaningless content in the sysfs attributes) and
>>>>>>>> causes various scripts and programs to fail because they don't know how
>>>>>>>> to parse that data.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> To fix this, duplicate the check from brcmstb_soc_device_early_init()
>>>>>>>> that already prevents the code from doing anything nonsensical on non-
>>>>>>>> STB platforms.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Fixes: f780429adfbc ("soc: brcmstb: biuctrl: Move to early_initcall")
>>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <treding at nvidia.com>
>>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>>  drivers/soc/bcm/brcmstb/common.c | 5 +++++
>>>>>>>>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> diff --git a/drivers/soc/bcm/brcmstb/common.c b/drivers/soc/bcm/brcmstb/common.c
>>>>>>>> index 781ada62d0a3..4fe1cb73b39a 100644
>>>>>>>> --- a/drivers/soc/bcm/brcmstb/common.c
>>>>>>>> +++ b/drivers/soc/bcm/brcmstb/common.c
>>>>>>>> @@ -89,8 +89,13 @@ early_initcall(brcmstb_soc_device_early_init);
>>>>>>>>  static int __init brcmstb_soc_device_init(void)
>>>>>>>>  {
>>>>>>>>    struct soc_device_attribute *soc_dev_attr;
>>>>>>>> +  struct device_node *sun_top_ctrl;
>>>>>>>>    struct soc_device *soc_dev;
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> +  sun_top_ctrl = of_find_matching_node(NULL, sun_top_ctrl_match);
>>>>>>>> +  if (!sun_top_ctrl)
>>>>>>>> +          return -ENODEV;
>>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> missing of_node_put(sun_top_ctrl) ? or am I missing to see that elsewhere ?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Further, I still the error messags on my Juno with this patch applied. I
>>>>>> fail to see how this patch prevents brcmstb_biuctrl_init which is
>>>>>> early_initcall in drivers/soc/bcm/brcmstb/biuctrl.c getting called ?
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm not sure I understand. There's no way we can prevent the early
>>>>> initcall from running. The point here is to prevent it from running code
>>>>> that shouldn't be run on a platform.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Sorry for missing the context, I was referring [1]
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Sudeep
>>>>
>>>> [1] [1] https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=151568158127806&w=2
>>>
>>>
>>> Do we have an incremental patch coming, or should I revert this?
>>
>> Oh, d'oh. Just noticed the 3-patch series.
>>
>> Acks from the involved parties would be appreciated before I apply.
>
> Please revert, I will submit a simpler fix which is a combination of
> Thierry's and Sudeep's patches. Sorry about the mess.

Done.


-Olof