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Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2018 15:32:29 +0530
From: Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@...com>
To: Lukas Wunner <lukas@...ner.de>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 0/4] drivers/base: bugfix for supplier<-consumer
ordering in device_kset
+Grygorii, linux-omap
On Friday 06 July 2018 02:06 PM, Lukas Wunner wrote:
> [cc += Kishon Vijay Abraham]
>
> On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 11:18:28AM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>> OK, so calling devices_kset_move_last() from really_probe() clearly is
>> a mistake.
>>
>> I'm not really sure what the intention of it was as the changelog of
>> commit 52cdbdd49853d doesn't really explain that (why would it be
>> insufficient without that change?)
>
> It seems 52cdbdd49853d fixed an issue with boards which have an MMC
> whose reset pin needs to be driven high on shutdown, lest the MMC
> won't be found on the next boot.
>
> The boards' devicetrees use a kludge wherein the reset pin is modelled
> as a regulator. The regulator is enabled when the MMC probes and
> disabled on driver unbind and shutdown. As a result, the pin is driven
> low on shutdown and the MMC is not found on the next boot.
>
> To fix this, another kludge was invented wherein the GPIO expander
> driving the reset pin unconditionally drives all its pins high on
> shutdown, see pcf857x_shutdown() in drivers/gpio/gpio-pcf857x.c
> (commit adc284755055, "gpio: pcf857x: restore the initial line state
> of all pcf lines").
>
> For this kludge to work, the GPIO expander's ->shutdown hook needs to
> be executed after the MMC expander's ->shutdown hook.
>
> Commit 52cdbdd49853d achieved that by reordering devices_kset according
> to the probe order. Apparently the MMC probes after the GPIO expander,
> possibly because it returns -EPROBE_DEFER if the vmmc regulator isn't
> available yet, see mmc_regulator_get_supply().
>
> Note, I'm just piecing the information together from git history,
> I'm not responsible for these kludges. (I'm innocent!)
>
> @Pingfan Liu, if you just remove the call to devices_kset_move_last()
> from really_probe(), does the issue go away?
>
> If so, it might be best to remove that call and model the dependency
> with a call to device_link_add() in mmc_regulator_get_supply().
hmm.. had a quick look on this and looks like struct regulator is a regulator
frameworks internal data structure, so its members are not accessible outside.
struct regulator's device pointer is required for device_link_add().
Thanks
Kishon
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