Hello.
On 3/9/2016 2:09 PM, Linus Walleij wrote:
The 'ravb' Ethernet driver couldn't connect to the PHY as the MDIO bus
appeared empty on the Renesas R-Car boards. The bug hunt finally pointed
at the commit adding the "init" pintcrl state: it tries to switch to non-
default state before the driver probe which should fail but doesn't as the
PFC pinctrl driver happens to call pinctrl_provide_dummies() which makes
all state lookups succeed, even though the state doesn't really exist.
That feature is only relevant to non-DT systems and all the ARM boards
that use the PFC driver have been converted to the DT boot, so limiting
it to the SuperH architecture seems The Right Thing...
Fixes: ef0eebc05130 ("drivers/pinctrl: Add the concept of an "init" state")
Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Putting this on hold because another patch is being discussed as a
more proper fix.
Sigh, I had that variant of the fix too but erroneously thought that
of_have_populated_dt() could only be used with CONFIG_OF=y, so didn't publish
that variant... Had no idea someone else's working on the same issue.
Yours,
Linus Walleij
MBR, Sergei
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