Currently slave devices are only added either from device tree or acpi
entries. However lets say, there is wrong or no entry of a slave device
in DT that is enumerated, then there is no way for user to know all
the enumerated devices on the bus.
Sorry Srinivas, I don't understand your point.
The sysfs entries will include all devices that are described in
platform firmware (be it DT or ACPI).
yes that is true, but it will not include all the enumerated devices on
the bus!
In my case on a new board I was trying to figure out what devices are on
the bus even before even adding any device tree entries!
We've seen this before but dynamic debug provides all the information
you need. see e.g. the logs from
https://sof-ci.01.org/linuxpr/PR2425/build4447/devicetest/
jf-cml-rvp-sdw-1 kernel: [ 289.751974] soundwire sdw-master-0: Slave
attached, programming device number
jf-cml-rvp-sdw-1 kernel: [ 289.752121] soundwire sdw-master-0: SDW
Slave Addr: 10025d070000 <<< HERE
jf-cml-rvp-sdw-1 kernel: [ 289.752122] soundwire sdw-master-0: SDW
Slave class_id 0, part_id 700, mfg_id 25d, unique_id 0, version 1
> In second case I had a typo in the device tree entry and sysfs
displayed
devices with that typo rather than actual enumerated device id.
That's a feature, not a bug? We use what address the platform firmware
provides. If it's inaccurate then nothing can work.
If you add to sysfs entries unknown devices which happen to be present
on the bus, then what? How would you identify them from the devices
that are described in firmware?
Both of them should be displayed in sysfs, core should be able to
differentiate this based on the presence of fw_node or of_node and not
bind!
Core yes but user not so much. If the intent is to list the devices
present on the bus, your patch still requires manual work.
Also the sysfs entries describe properties, but if you haven't bound a
driver then how would this work?
This is would be informative, atleast in cases like me!
All I want to know is the list of enumerated devices on the bus, If
doing this way is not the right thing, then am happy to try any suggestion!
For now I have managed to figure out enumerated device ids on the bus
with this patch, I was hoping that other people would also hit such
issue, so I sent this patch!
Now I get your point but
a) you already have a dynamic debug trace to list all devices
b) adding 'undeclared' devices would make things quite murky and is only
half of the solution. We already struggle because we already have
'ghost' devices in sysfs that are not physically present, and no way to
differentiate between the two. If we did add those entries, then we'd
need two new sysfs attributes such as
'declared' and 'enumerated'.