linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Revert "ARM: dts: bcm283x: Fix DTC warnings about missing phy-cells"

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Message-ID: <dd0372b5-e16c-ce77-ce39-2c4ffa61f663@i2se.com>
Date:   Mon, 8 Jan 2018 10:36:42 +0100
From:   Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@...e.com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     Eric Anholt <eric@...olt.net>, Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        DTML <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        arm-soc <arm@...nel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "ARM: dts: bcm283x: Fix DTC warnings about missing
 phy-cells"

Hi Arnd,


Am 08.01.2018 um 10:27 schrieb Arnd Bergmann:
> On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 10:15 AM, Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@...e.com> wrote:
>> Hi Eric,
>> Am 07.01.2018 um 23:08 schrieb Eric Anholt:
>>> Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@...e.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> This reverts commit 014d6da6cb2525d7f48fb08c705cb130cc7b5f4a.
>>>>
>>>> The DT clean up could trigger an endless deferred probe of DWC2 USB
>>>> driver
>>>> on the Raspberry Pi 2/3. So revert the change until we fixed the probing
>>>> issue.
>>> Why's that?  I found that I needed to enable the generic no-op phy
>>> driver, but other than that it was fine.
>>
>> in order to avoid this regression. Changing the configuration is not a
>> solution for the kernelci guys.
>>
>> Btw
>>
>> CONFIG_NOP_USB_XCEIV=y
>>
>> is already enabled in arm64/defconfig and the issue still occured. Do you
>> mean a different option?
> Obviously we need to fix this, but I really want to understand what exactly
> happened so we can fix the code if possible rather than making the
> dts file incompatible with the binding again.

i fully agree, but dwc2 "hacking" usually requires more time than 
reverting this change.

>
> Do you have any more insight into how we get into the deferred probe
> situation?

I send this bug report [1] on Friday to linux-usb.

Stefan

[1] - https://marc.info/?l=linux-usb&m=151518314314753&w=2

>
>         Arnd