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Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2024 14:47:07 +0100
From: Cristian Marussi <cristian.marussi@....com>
To: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@...adcom.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infreadead.org, Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt@...nel.org>,
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Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] firmware: arm_scmi: Give SMC transport precedence
over mailbox
On Mon, Oct 07, 2024 at 04:54:13PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> Broadcom STB platforms have for historical reasons included both
> "arm,scmi-smc" and "arm,scmi" in their SCMI Device Tree node compatible
> string, in that order.
>
> After the commit cited in the Fixes tag and with a kernel configuration
> that enables both the SMC and the Mailbox transports, we would probe
> the mailbox transport, but fail to complete since we would not have a
> mailbox driver available. With each SCMI transport being a platform
> driver with its own set of compatible strings to match, rather than an
> unique platform driver entry point, we no longer match from most
> specific to least specific. There is also no simple way for the mailbox
> driver to return -ENODEV and let another platform driver attempt
> probing. This leads to a platform with no SCMI provider, therefore all
> drivers depending upon SCMI resources are put on deferred probe forever.
>
> By keeping the SMC transport objects linked first, we can let the
> platform driver match the compatible string and probe successfully with
> no adverse effects on platforms using the mailbox transport.
>
> Fixes: b53515fa177c ("firmware: arm_scmi: Make MBOX transport a standalone driver")
> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@...adcom.com>
I was hoping to find some way to avoid this workaround....
...but I failed :P ... so
LGTM.
Reviewed-by: Cristian Marussi <cristian.marussi@....com>
Thanks,
Cristian
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