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

[Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@kernel.org>]

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?

-Sumit