On Wed, Jun 22, 2022 at 11:50 PM Sascha Hauer <sha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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.
Oops. Fixed and sent out a v2.
-Saravana
