linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] of/address: Don't throw errors on absent ranges properties

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Message-ID: <1416364351.5704.22.camel@kernel.crashing.org>
Date:	Wed, 19 Nov 2014 13:32:31 +1100
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>
Cc:	Rob Herring <robherring2@...il.com>,
	"devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] of/address: Don't throw errors on absent ranges
 properties

On Tue, 2014-11-18 at 16:57 +0000, Grant Likely wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Nov 2014 17:58:23 +1100
> , Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
>  wrote:
> > The core always tries to translate any "reg" property to construct the platform
> > device names. This results in a pile of "OF: no ranges; cannot translate" errors
> > in dmesg whenever we expose things like i2c devices that cannot directly translate
> > to the MMIO space.
> 
> I don't have a problem with the change, but it seems to be catching an
> odd usage of of_device_make_bus_id(). Why is of_device_make_bus_id()
> being called on i2c devices? Those shouldn't be modelled as
> platform_devices.

Sorry, this was my explanation being full of crap. It's my i2c
_controller_ which is a platform device, and is on the xscom bus which
isn't directly MMIO translatable.

The patch still stands :)

Cheers,
Ben.

> g.
> 
> > 
> > Turn this into a pr_debug instead
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/of/address.c b/drivers/of/address.c
> > index f0541fd..bf1f79d 100644
> > --- a/drivers/of/address.c
> > +++ b/drivers/of/address.c
> > @@ -444,7 +444,7 @@ static int of_translate_one(struct device_node *parent, struct of_bus *bus,
> >  	 */
> >  	ranges = of_get_property(parent, rprop, &rlen);
> >  	if (ranges == NULL && !of_empty_ranges_quirk()) {
> > -		pr_err("OF: no ranges; cannot translate\n");
> > +		pr_debug("OF: no ranges; cannot translate\n");
> >  		return 1;
> >  	}
> >  	if (ranges == NULL || rlen == 0) {
> > 
> > 
> 
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