Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: qcom-pmic-gpio: silence -EPROBE_DEFER message on probe

[Brian Masney <bmasney@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 05:01:19PM +0200, Konrad Dybcio wrote:
> On 17.08.2023 16:59, Brian Masney wrote:
> > The following message shows up one or more times when booting a Qualcomm
> > SA8775 Development board:
> > 
> >     qcom-spmi-gpio c440000.spmi:pmic@2:gpio@8800: can't add gpio chip
> > 
> > Convert this over to use dev_err_probe() to silence this message.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Brian Masney <bmasney@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> That looks odd, why would it ever defer?
> 
> SPMI should be up by the time it gets a chance to probe.

You replied within the same minute of me posting that patch, which is
the fastest review I've had to date on an upstream kernel list. Before
we continue, please verify:

              [ ] I am not a robot

:)

So SPMI is up and probes normally the first time, and is up by time this
driver probes. I think the probe deferral is happening somewhere in
pinctrl, however I am not sure exactly where. I added some tracers to
the kernel command line and here's some relevant log messages:

    device: 'c440000.spmi:pmic@2:gpio@8800': device_add
    bus: 'platform': add device c440000.spmi:pmic@2:gpio@8800
    PM: Adding info for platform:c440000.spmi:pmic@2:gpio@8800
    bus: 'platform': __driver_probe_device: matched device c440000.spmi:pmic@2:gpio@8800 with driver qcom-spmi-gpio
    bus: 'platform': really_probe: probing driver qcom-spmi-gpio with device c440000.spmi:pmic@2:gpio@8800
    qcom-spmi-gpio c440000.spmi:pmic@2:gpio@8800: no pinctrl handle
    qcom-spmi-gpio c440000.spmi:pmic@2:gpio@8800: try to register 12 pins ...
    pinctrl core: registered pin 0 (gpio1) on c440000.spmi:pmic@2:gpio@8800
    pinctrl core: registered pin 1 (gpio2) on c440000.spmi:pmic@2:gpio@8800
    pinctrl core: registered pin 2 (gpio3) on c440000.spmi:pmic@2:gpio@8800
    pinctrl core: registered pin 3 (gpio4) on c440000.spmi:pmic@2:gpio@8800
    pinctrl core: registered pin 4 (gpio5) on c440000.spmi:pmic@2:gpio@8800
    pinctrl core: registered pin 5 (gpio6) on c440000.spmi:pmic@2:gpio@8800
    pinctrl core: registered pin 6 (gpio7) on c440000.spmi:pmic@2:gpio@8800
    pinctrl core: registered pin 7 (gpio8) on c440000.spmi:pmic@2:gpio@8800
    pinctrl core: registered pin 8 (gpio9) on c440000.spmi:pmic@2:gpio@8800
    pinctrl core: registered pin 9 (gpio10) on c440000.spmi:pmic@2:gpio@8800
    pinctrl core: registered pin 10 (gpio11) on c440000.spmi:pmic@2:gpio@8800
    pinctrl core: registered pin 11 (gpio12) on c440000.spmi:pmic@2:gpio@8800
    qcom-spmi-gpio c440000.spmi:pmic@2:gpio@8800: no hogs found
    qcom-spmi-gpio c440000.spmi:pmic@2:gpio@8800: error -EPROBE_DEFER: can't add gpio chip
    qcom-spmi-gpio c440000.spmi:pmic@2:gpio@8800: Driver qcom-spmi-gpio requests probe deferral
    platform c440000.spmi:pmic@2:gpio@8800: Added to deferred list

The second time it probes the device is successfully added.

Brian