On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 08:07:50AM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 4:36 AM, Jan Glauber <jglauber@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > If the regulator probing is not yet finished this driver
> > might catch a -EPROBE_DEFER. Returning after this condition
> > did not remove the created platform device. On a repeated
> > call to the probe function the of_platform_device_create
> > fails.
> >
> > Calling of_platform_device_destroy after EPROBE_DEFER resolves
> > this bug.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jan Glauber <jglauber@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/mmc/host/cavium-thunderx.c | 4 +++-
> > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/mmc/host/cavium-thunderx.c b/drivers/mmc/host/cavium-thunderx.c
> > index fe3d772..257535e 100644
> > --- a/drivers/mmc/host/cavium-thunderx.c
> > +++ b/drivers/mmc/host/cavium-thunderx.c
> > @@ -137,8 +137,10 @@ static int thunder_mmc_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
> > continue;
> >
> > ret = cvm_mmc_of_slot_probe(&host->slot_pdev[i]->dev, host);
> > - if (ret)
> > + if (ret) {
> > + of_platform_device_destroy(&host->slot_pdev[i]->dev, NULL);
>
> What if this fails after the 1st iteration of the loop. It's only
> cleaning up the current device.
The platform device is just a dummy device created directly before
cvm_mmc_of_slot_probe(). So there is no need to cleanup anything else.
As far as I've seen it the platform code 'tags' the nodes it already
used, but I need the same node to be parsed again on -EPROBE_DEFER.
> Use devm_of_platform_populate or
> of_platform_populate/of_platform_depopulate instead.
I'm not sure one of these will work here.
--Jan
> Rob
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