The clk and regulator frameworks expect clk/regulator consumer-devices
to have info about the consumed clks/regulators described in the device's
fw_node.
To work around cases where this info is not present in the firmware tables,
which is often the case on x86/ACPI devices, both frameworks allow the
provider-driver to attach info about consumers to the clks/regulators
when registering these.
This causes problems with the probe ordering wrt drivers for consumers
of these clks/regulators. Since the lookups are only registered when the
provider-driver binds, trying to get these clks/regulators before then
results in a -ENOENT error for clks and a dummy regulator for regulators.
ACPI-devices may have dependencies at the ACPI level (_DEP method), these
are tracked by the ACPI core, but ACPI devices will be instantiated during
boot even if they have unmet ACPI-dependencies because the _DEPs may never
get fully resolved (under Linux).
These ACPI-dependencies may be useful to solve the probe ordeing, for
example on laptops which use MIPI camera sensors connected to an Intel IPU3
for there cameras, a TI TPS68470 PMIC may be used to provide a clk +
regulators for the sensors. This TPS68470 PMIC is described using an
ACPI-device with a HID of INT3472 and the sensors have a _DEP pointing to
the INT3472 device which describes their PMIC.
The sensor drivers can use the ACPI core dependency tracking to delay
binding (return -EPROBE_DEFER) until the Linux INT3472 driver has bound
and registered the clks + regulator including lookup info, thus solving
the probe ordering issue.
Add a has_unmet_acpi_deps() which drivers can use to check if all
dependencies requested enumerated by the _DEP method have been met.
Note this relies on all drivers for devices listed in _DEP (for a
device which driver uses has_unmet_acpi_deps()) to call
acpi_dev_clear_dependencies() at the end of their probe() function.
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/acpi.h | 12 ++++++++++++
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/acpi.h b/include/linux/acpi.h
index 974d497a897d..7ff35d483d04 100644
--- a/include/linux/acpi.h
+++ b/include/linux/acpi.h
@@ -86,6 +86,13 @@ static inline bool has_acpi_companion(struct device *dev)
return is_acpi_device_node(dev->fwnode);
}
+static inline bool has_unmet_acpi_deps(struct device *dev)
+{
+ struct acpi_device *adev = ACPI_COMPANION(dev);
+
+ return adev ? adev->dep_unmet : false;
+}
+
static inline void acpi_preset_companion(struct device *dev,
struct acpi_device *parent, u64 addr)
{
@@ -802,6 +809,11 @@ static inline bool has_acpi_companion(struct device *dev)
return false;
}
+static inline bool has_unmet_acpi_deps(struct device *dev)
+{
+ return false;
+}
+
static inline void acpi_preset_companion(struct device *dev,
struct acpi_device *parent, u64 addr)
{
--
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