linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] firmware: ti_sci: Mark driver as non removable

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Date:   Thu, 7 Sep 2023 22:54:27 +0200
From:   Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
To:     Dhruva Gole <d-gole@...com>
Cc:     Nishanth Menon <nm@...com>, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Tero Kristo <kristo@...nel.org>,
        Santosh Shilimkar <ssantosh@...nel.org>,
        Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@...com>, vibhore@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware: ti_sci: Mark driver as non removable

Hello,

On Thu, Sep 07, 2023 at 10:47:00PM +0530, Dhruva Gole wrote:
> The TI-SCI message protocol provides a way to communicate between
> various compute processors with a central system controller entity. It
> provides the fundamental device management capability and clock control
> in the SOCs that it's used in.
> 

Maybe add:

	The remove function failed to do all the necessary cleanup if
	there are registered users. Some things are freed however which
	likely results in an oops later on.

> Ensure that the driver isn't unbound by suppressing its bind and unbind
> sysfs attributes. As the driver is built-in there is no way to remove
> device once bound.
> 
> We can also remove the ti_sci_remove call along with the
> ti_sci_debugfs_destroy as there are no callers for it any longer.
> 
> Fixes: aa276781a64a ("firmware: Add basic support for TI System Control Interface (TI-SCI) protocol")
> Suggested-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
> Signed-off-by: Dhruva Gole <d-gole@...com>

While this isn't the most elegant solution, this is probably the most
feasible one.

Acked-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>

(with or without the suggested addition to the commit log above).

Best regards
Uwe

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