linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] PCI: dwc: layerscape: convert to builtin_platform

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Message-ID: <40251e6b610897639e2e08fec87c73b3@walle.cc>
Date:   Mon, 25 Jan 2021 20:44:28 +0100
From:   Michael Walle <michael@...le.cc>
To:     Saravana Kannan <saravanak@...gle.com>
Cc:     Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@....com>,
        Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
        linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
        PCI <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Minghuan Lian <minghuan.Lian@....com>,
        Mingkai Hu <mingkai.hu@....com>, Roy Zang <roy.zang@....com>,
        Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PCI: dwc: layerscape: convert to
 builtin_platform_driver()

Am 2021-01-25 19:58, schrieb Saravana Kannan:
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 8:50 AM Lorenzo Pieralisi
> <lorenzo.pieralisi@....com> wrote:
>> 
>> On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 08:28:36PM +0100, Michael Walle wrote:
>> > [RESEND, fat-fingered the buttons of my mail client and converted
>> > all CCs to BCCs :(]
>> >
>> > Am 2021-01-20 20:02, schrieb Saravana Kannan:
>> > > On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 6:24 AM Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org> wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > > On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 4:53 AM Michael Walle <michael@...le.cc>
>> > > > wrote:
>> > > > >
>> > > > > fw_devlink will defer the probe until all suppliers are ready. We can't
>> > > > > use builtin_platform_driver_probe() because it doesn't retry after probe
>> > > > > deferral. Convert it to builtin_platform_driver().
>> > > >
>> > > > If builtin_platform_driver_probe() doesn't work with fw_devlink, then
>> > > > shouldn't it be fixed or removed?
>> > >
>> > > I was actually thinking about this too. The problem with fixing
>> > > builtin_platform_driver_probe() to behave like
>> > > builtin_platform_driver() is that these probe functions could be
>> > > marked with __init. But there are also only 20 instances of
>> > > builtin_platform_driver_probe() in the kernel:
>> > > $ git grep ^builtin_platform_driver_probe | wc -l
>> > > 20
>> > >
>> > > So it might be easier to just fix them to not use
>> > > builtin_platform_driver_probe().
>> > >
>> > > Michael,
>> > >
>> > > Any chance you'd be willing to help me by converting all these to
>> > > builtin_platform_driver() and delete builtin_platform_driver_probe()?
>> >
>> > If it just moving the probe function to the _driver struct and
>> > remove the __init annotations. I could look into that.
>> 
>> Can I drop this patch then ?
> 
> No, please pick it up. Michael and I were talking about doing similar
> changes for other drivers.

Yes please, I was just about to answer, but Saravana beat me.

-michael