[PATCH v6 11/12] platform/chrome: Introduce device tree hardware prober

[Tzung-Bi Shih]

On Thu, Sep 05, 2024 at 11:52:32AM +0800, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 4, 2024 at 6:08 PM Tzung-Bi Shih <tzungbi at kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 04, 2024 at 05:00:13PM +0800, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:
> > > diff --git a/drivers/platform/chrome/chromeos_of_hw_prober.c b/drivers/platform/chrome/chromeos_of_hw_prober.c
> > [...]
> > > +static int chromeos_of_hw_prober_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> > > +{
> > > +     for (size_t i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(hw_prober_platforms); i++) {
> > > +             int ret;
> > > +
> > > +             if (!of_machine_is_compatible(hw_prober_platforms[i].compatible))
> > > +                     continue;
> > > +
> > > +             ret = hw_prober_platforms[i].prober(&pdev->dev, hw_prober_platforms[i].data);
> > > +             /* Ignore unrecoverable errors and keep going through other probers */
> > > +             if (ret == -EPROBE_DEFER)
> > > +                     return ret;
> >
> > Is it harmless if some of the components get probed multiple times?  E.g.:
> > comp1 probed -> comp2 probed -> comp3 returned -EPROBE_DEFER -> some time
> > later, chromeos_of_hw_prober_probe() gets called again.
> 
> Yes it is harmless. Components already enabled will not get disabled
> in the error path. And the prober that enabled that component will see
> that a component was enabled, and skip doing the whole process again.
> 
> So something like:
> 
>     comp1 probed -> comp2 probed -> comp3 -EPROBE_DEFER ->
>         comp1 skip -> comp2 skip -> comp3 probed

I assume this patch will be applied through the i2c tree:
Acked-by: Tzung-Bi Shih <tzungbi at kernel.org>