From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752656AbcBOQtj (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Feb 2016 11:49:39 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:37048 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752085AbcBOQti (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Feb 2016 11:49:38 -0500 Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 08:49:37 -0800 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Uwe =?iso-8859-1?Q?Kleine-K=F6nig?= Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux , Robin Murphy , Guenter Roeck , linux-next@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: arm qemu test failures due to 'driver-core: platform: probe of-devices only using list of compatibles' Message-ID: <20160215164937.GC25556@kroah.com> References: <20160214165010.GA3189@roeck-us.net> <20160215105909.GH12289@pengutronix.de> <56C1CE95.6020206@arm.com> <20160215144344.GF10826@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <20160215162753.GI12289@pengutronix.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20160215162753.GI12289@pengutronix.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 05:27:53PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > Hello Russell, > > On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 02:43:44PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 01:11:49PM +0000, Robin Murphy wrote: > > > FWIW the PL180 on my Juno still works fine with this patch picked on top of > > > -rc3, so the issue would seem to be something else - From a quick comparison > > > between the DTs I see a slight difference in compatible strings for the > > > clocks, but the more likely-looking suspect is that the VExpress DT > > > references some GPIOs where the Juno DT doesn't. > > > > Maybe it would be a good idea that Uwe creates a patch which initially > > warns when a DT platform device falls back to matching via the platform > > strings? > > > > It's likely that the "basic subsystem" platform drivers are silent when > > they probe, so having notification of a fallback would at least put > > something into the kernel log when that happens - and then later change > > that to be a hard failure (as Uwe is trying to do with his patch.) > > > > However, I have to bring up another point: is what Uwe is trying to do > > actually the right thing? The DT platform device code has the ability > > to create standard platform devices from DT, with an of_node, but with > > standard names, and platform data. It's there for compatibility with > > older systems, and is there to allow systems to be transitioned over. > > > > This patch breaks all that: despite the DT code changing the platform > > device bus_id from the address.nodename format to the standard format > > (thus allowing unconverted platform drivers to match), this patch > > means that because the platform device has a of_node attached, this > > will now fail. > > > > Therefore, I think Uwe's patch is just wrong - or, if it's something we > > want, the auxdata table support code needs to _also_ be ripped out of > > the drivers/of/platform.c code, but that then means anyone who wants to > > go through the conversion has a big flag-day change to go through. > > That's a valid concern I wasn't aware of when I created the patch. > > So maybe just emitting a warning as you suggested is a good idea. And > additionally only emit it when the driver is dt aware, too. > > Greg, can you drop this patch, or do you need a proper changelog for a > revert? On top of that I'd then create a new patch which is more > conservative. A hint as to what the git commit id was would be helpful, I can just revert it based on that. thanks, greg k-h