On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 5:58 AM, Sergei Shtylyov
<sergei.shtylyov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
Yours,
Linus Walleij
