linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] usb: misc: onboard_usb_hub: Don't defer probing for 'incomplete' DT nodes

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Date:   Tue, 20 Dec 2022 07:58:01 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@...omium.org>
Cc:     Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
        Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@...e.com>,
        Ravi Chandra Sadineni <ravisadineni@...omium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usb: misc: onboard_usb_hub: Don't defer probing for
 'incomplete' DT nodes

On Tue, Dec 20, 2022 at 12:45:01AM +0000, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
> Some boards have device tree nodes for USB hubs supported by the
> onboard_usb_hub driver, but the nodes don't have all properties
> needed for the driver to work properly (which is not necessarily
> an error in the DT). Currently _find_onboard_hub() returns
> -EPROBE_DEFER in such cases, which results in an unusable USB hub,
> since successive probes fail in the same way. Use the absence of
> the "vdd" supply as an indicator of such 'incomplete' DT nodes
> and return -ENODEV.
> 
> Fixes: 8bc063641ceb ("usb: misc: Add onboard_usb_hub driver")
> Reported-by: Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@...e.com>
> Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@...omium.org>

No cc: stable?