Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] i2c: scmi: Convert to be a platform driver

[Michael Brunner <michael.brunner@kontron.com>]

On Thu, 2023-06-15 at 18:50 +0300, andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
wrote:
> On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 07:51:55AM +0000, Michael Brunner wrote:
> > On Thu, 2022-09-08 at 13:02 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > On Thu, Sep 08, 2022 at 09:48:29AM +0200, Josef Johansson wrote:
> > > > On 9/8/22 08:07, Josef Johansson wrote:
> > > > > On 9/7/22 21:47, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> > > > > > On Tue, Sep 06, 2022 at 06:55:07PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko
> > > > > > wrote:
> 
> First of all, sorry for so-o lo-o-ong delay. Too many emails in a
> backlog.
> 
> ...

No problem, thanks a lot for taking the time.

> > > > I compiled with linux-6.0.0-rc4 with your patch on top.
> > > > 
> > > > Have been running flawless so far. Boot showed no problems.
> > We just noticed that this change prevents the usage of the i2c-scmi
> > driver on basically all Kontron COMe based boards.
> 
> Does this device have resources defined in DSDT? Can you show all
> variants?

According to our BIOS department there are no resources defined in any
variant. The device uses operation regions only.

> > The reason is the patch "ACPI / platform: Add SMB0001 HID to
> > forbidden_id_list" submitted in November 2018 by Hans de Goede.
> > The
> > patch blacklists the SMB0001 HID that is also used by the COMe
> > boards.
> > This was due to issues with HP AMD based laptops according to the
> > commit message.
> > Ironically the commit message there states that it is OK to
> > blacklist
> > the HID as the device directly binds to the acpi_bus and therefore
> > the
> > platform_device is not needed anyway. This changed with this patch.
> > 
> > As this affects all systems using this HID, applying a patch that
> > whitelists specific boards again in the acpi-platform driver
> > doesn't
> > seem to be a good solution to me.
> > Therefore I would request to remove this patch again, unless
> > someone
> > has a better idea.
> 
> I have a better idea if the DSDT has no resources. See the Q above.

Sounds good for me. Please let me know if you need additional
information or if we should test something.

Best regards,
  Michael Brunner