linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 06/10] i2c: Introduce OF component probe function

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Message-ID: <ZuayXMGMdEqSyvUl@skv.local>
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2024 13:09:32 +0300
From: Andrey Skvortsov <andrej.skvortzov@...il.com>
To: Chen-Yu Tsai <wenst@...omium.org>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>, Saravana Kannan <saravanak@...gle.com>,
	Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
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	Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 06/10] i2c: Introduce OF component probe function

On 24-09-11 15:27, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:
> Some devices are designed and manufactured with some components having
> multiple drop-in replacement options. These components are often
> connected to the mainboard via ribbon cables, having the same signals
> and pin assignments across all options. These may include the display
> panel and touchscreen on laptops and tablets, and the trackpad on
> laptops. Sometimes which component option is used in a particular device
> can be detected by some firmware provided identifier, other times that
> information is not available, and the kernel has to try to probe each
> device.
> 
> This change attempts to make the "probe each device" case cleaner. The
> current approach is to have all options added and enabled in the device
> tree. The kernel would then bind each device and run each driver's probe
> function. This works, but has been broken before due to the introduction
> of asynchronous probing, causing multiple instances requesting "shared"
> resources, such as pinmuxes, GPIO pins, interrupt lines, at the same
> time, with only one instance succeeding. Work arounds for these include
> moving the pinmux to the parent I2C controller, using GPIO hogs or
> pinmux settings to keep the GPIO pins in some fixed configuration, and
> requesting the interrupt line very late. Such configurations can be seen
> on the MT8183 Krane Chromebook tablets, and the Qualcomm sc8280xp-based
> Lenovo Thinkpad 13S.
> 
> Instead of this delicate dance between drivers and device tree quirks,
> this change introduces a simple I2C component probe. function For a
> given class of devices on the same I2C bus, it will go through all of
> them, doing a simple I2C read transfer and see which one of them responds.
> It will then enable the device that responds.
> 
> This requires some minor modifications in the existing device tree. The
> status for all the device nodes for the component options must be set
> to "failed-needs-probe". This makes it clear that some mechanism is

Wrong status name ("failed-needs-probe"), "fail-needs-probe". This is
minor, but it confused me as I went through patchset first time, since
there are different name in different patches.

> needed to enable one of them, and also prevents the prober and device
> drivers running at the same time.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <wenst@...omium.org>

-- 
Best regards,
Andrey Skvortsov