Re: [PATCH] soc: qcom: ice: Avoid probe deferring for un-supported ICE feature

[Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@oss.qualcomm.com>]

On 1/30/26 10:52 AM, Sumit Garg wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2026 at 10:34:26AM +0100, Konrad Dybcio wrote:
>> On 1/30/26 10:11 AM, Sumit Garg wrote:
>>> From: Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@oss.qualcomm.com>
>>>
>>> ICE related SCM calls may not be supported in every TZ environment like
>>> OP-TEE or a no-TZ environment too. So let's try to avoid probe deferring
>>> when it's known that ICE feature isn't supported.
>>>
>>> This problem only came to notice after the inline encryption drivers were
>>> enabled in the arm64 defconfig by: commit 5f37788adedd ("arm64: defconfig:
>>> Enable SCSI UFS Crypto and Block Inline encryption drivers").
>>>
>>> Fixes: 2afbf43a4aec ("soc: qcom: Make the Qualcomm UFS/SDCC ICE a dedicated driver")
>>> Signed-off-by: Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@oss.qualcomm.com>
>>> ---
>>>  drivers/soc/qcom/ice.c | 2 +-
>>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/soc/qcom/ice.c b/drivers/soc/qcom/ice.c
>>> index b203bc685cad..ab9586b8caf5 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/soc/qcom/ice.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/soc/qcom/ice.c
>>> @@ -652,7 +652,7 @@ static struct qcom_ice *of_qcom_ice_get(struct device *dev)
>>>  		dev_err(dev, "Cannot get ice instance from %s\n",
>>>  			dev_name(&pdev->dev));
>>>  		platform_device_put(pdev);
>>> -		return ERR_PTR(-EPROBE_DEFER);
>>> +		return NULL;
>>
>> Wouldn't this wreck the "actually need to defer" case, i.e.
>>
>>
>> qcom,ufs probes first
>>   calls devm_of_qcom_ice_get()
>>     "ice" reg is missing, non-legacy case
>>       qcom,ice is absent (not yet probed)
>>         return NULL
>>
>> ...
>>
>> qcom,ice probes
>>
>> ?
> 
> Since qcom,ufs depends on qcom,ice via a phandle, so isn't the probe
> orderering automatically taken care off? Or that isn't the case here?

No, that's guaranteed by devlink only with certain properties.

In this case though, I think it could make sense to add it to the
"suppliers" list in drivers/of/property.c.

I don't know if vendors adding their custom properties there is a
pattern that +Rob will be happy about though..

Konrad