On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 9:01 PM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> acpi_lpss_create_device() skips handling LPSS devices which do not have
> a mmio resources in their resource list (typically these devices are
> disabled by the firmware). But since the LPSS code does not bind to the
> device, acpi_bus_attach() ends up still creating a platform device for
> it and the regular platform_driver for the ACPI HID still tries to bind
> to it.
>
> This happens e.g. on some boards which do not use the pwm-controller
> and have an empty or invalid resource-table for it. Currently this causes
> these error messages to get logged:
> [ 3.281966] pwm-lpss 80862288:00: invalid resource
> [ 3.287098] pwm-lpss: probe of 80862288:00 failed with error -22
>
> This commit stops the undesirable creation of a platform_device for
> disabled LPSS devices by setting pnp.type.platform_id to 0. Note that
> acpi_scan_attach_handler() also sets pnp.type.platform_id to 0 when there
> is a matching handler for the device and that handler has no attach
> callback, so we simply behave as a handler without an attach function
> in this case.
>
> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>
Does this fix new behavior or is it an old issue?
> ---
> drivers/acpi/acpi_lpss.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpi_lpss.c b/drivers/acpi/acpi_lpss.c
> index 9cfe6b71078b..166a8e582d96 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/acpi_lpss.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/acpi_lpss.c
> @@ -610,6 +610,8 @@ static int acpi_lpss_create_device(struct acpi_device *adev,
> acpi_dev_free_resource_list(&resource_list);
>
> if (!pdata->mmio_base) {
> + /* Avoid acpi_bus_attach() instantiating a pdev for this dev. */
> + adev->pnp.type.platform_id = 0;
> /* Skip the device, but continue the namespace scan. */
> ret = 0;
> goto err_out;
> --
> 2.14.3
>
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