On Wed, Jun 22, 2022 at 02:59:10PM -0700, Saravana Kannan wrote: > When firmware sets the FWNODE_FLAG_BEST_EFFORT flag for a fwnode, > fw_devlink will do a best effort ordering for that device where it'll > only enforce the probe/suspend/resume ordering of that device with > suppliers that have drivers. The driver of that device can then decide > if it wants to defer probe or probe without the suppliers. > > This will be useful for avoid probe delays of the console device that > were caused by commit 71066545b48e ("driver core: Set > fw_devlink.strict=1 by default"). > > Fixes: 71066545b48e ("driver core: Set fw_devlink.strict=1 by default") > Reported-by: Sascha Hauer <sha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Reported-by: Peng Fan <peng.fan@xxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/base/core.c | 3 ++- > include/linux/fwnode.h | 4 ++++ > 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c > index 839f64485a55..61edd18b7bf3 100644 > --- a/drivers/base/core.c > +++ b/drivers/base/core.c > @@ -968,7 +968,8 @@ static void device_links_missing_supplier(struct device *dev) > > static bool dev_is_best_effort(struct device *dev) > { > - return fw_devlink_best_effort && dev->can_match; > + return (fw_devlink_best_effort && dev->can_match) || > + dev->fwnode->flags & FWNODE_FLAG_BEST_EFFORT; Check for dev->fwnode first. I am running in a NULL pointer exception here for a device that doesn't have a fwnode. Sascha -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Steuerwalder Str. 21 | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 |