On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 10:10:47AM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 25, 2024 at 01:24:53PM +0530, Manivannan Sadhasivam via B4 Relay wrote:
> > From: Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > As per the kernel device driver model, pwrctl device is the supplier for
> > the PCI device. But the device link that enforces the supplier-consumer
> > relationship is created inside the pwrctl driver currently. Due to this,
> > the driver model doesn't prevent probing of the PCI client drivers before
> > probing the corresponding pwrctl drivers. This may lead to a race condition
> > if the PCI device was already powered on by the bootloader (before the
> > pwrctl driver).
>
> > + * Create a device link between the PCI device and pwrctl device (if
> > + * exists). This ensures that the pwrctl drivers are probed before the
> > + * PCI client drivers.
> > + */
> > + pdev = of_find_device_by_node(dn);
> > + if (pdev) {
> > + if (!device_link_add(&dev->dev, &pdev->dev, DL_FLAG_AUTOREMOVE_CONSUMER))
> > + pci_err(dev, "failed to add device link between %s and %s\n",
> > + dev_name(&dev->dev), pdev->name);
>
> This prints the name for "dev" twice (once by pci_err(dev) and again
> from dev_name(&dev->dev)). Is it helpful to see it twice here?
Hmm, not very much. It could be reworded as below:
pci_err(dev, "failed to link: %s\n", pdev->name);
- Mani
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