linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v3 7/9] ipu3-cio2: Check if pci_dev->dev's fwnode is a software_node in cio2_parse_firmware() and set FWNODE_GRAPH_DEVICE

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Message-ID: <20201020224910.GB2703@paasikivi.fi.intel.com>
Date:   Wed, 21 Oct 2020 01:49:10 +0300
From:   Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Dan Scally <djrscally@...il.com>
Cc:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 7/9] ipu3-cio2: Check if pci_dev->dev's fwnode is
 a software_node in cio2_parse_firmware() and set
 FWNODE_GRAPH_DEVICE_DISABLED if so

Hi Dan,

On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 08:56:07PM +0100, Dan Scally wrote:
> Hi Sakari
> 
> On 20/10/2020 13:06, Sakari Ailus wrote:
> > Hi Andy,
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 12:19:58PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> >> On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 11:59:01PM +0100, Daniel Scally wrote:
> >>> fwnode_graph_get_endpoint_by_id() will optionally parse enabled devices
> >>> only; that status being determined through the .device_is_available() op
> >>> of the device's fwnode. As software_nodes don't have that operation and
> >>> adding it is meaningless, we instead need to check if the device's fwnode
> >>> is a software_node and if so pass the appropriate flag to disable that
> >>> check
> >> Period.
> >>
> >> I'm wondering if actually this can be hidden in fwnode_graph_get_endpoint_by_id().
> > The device availability test is actually there for a reason. Some firmware
> > implementations put all the potential devices in the tables and only one
> > (of some) of them are available.
> >
> > Could this be implemented so that if the node is a software node, then get
> > its parent and then see if that is available?
> >
> > I guess that could be implemented in software node ops. Any opinions?
> Actually when considering the cio2 device, it seems that
> set_secondary_fwnode() actually overwrites the _primary_, given
> fwnode_is_primary(dev->fwnode) returns false. So in at least some cases,
> this wouldn't work.

Ouch. I wonder when this happens --- have you checked what's the primary
there? I guess it might be if it's a PCI device without the corresponding
ACPI device node?

I remember you had an is_available implementation that just returned true
for software nodes in an early version of the set? I think it would still
be a lesser bad in this case.

-- 
Regards,

Sakari Ailus