Re: [PATCH v1 0/5] Enable fw_devlink=on by default

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On 14/01/2021 16:56, Jon Hunter wrote:
> 
> On 14/01/2021 16:47, Saravana Kannan wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
>>> Yes this is the warning shown here [0] and this is coming from
>>> the 'Generic PHY stmmac-0:00' device.
>>
>> Can you print the supplier and consumer device when this warning is
>> happening and let me know? That'd help too. I'm guessing the phy is
>> the consumer.
> 
> 
> Sorry I should have included that. I added a print to dump this on
> another build but failed to include here.
> 
> WARNING KERN Generic PHY stmmac-0:00: supplier 2200000.gpio (status 1)
> 
> The status is the link->status and looks like the supplier is the
> gpio controller. I have verified that the gpio controller is probed
> before this successfully.
> 
>> So the warning itself isn't a problem -- it's not breaking anything or
>> leaking memory or anything like that. But the device link is jumping
>> states in an incorrect manner. With enough context of this code (why
>> the device_bind_driver() is being called directly instead of going
>> through the normal probe path), it should be easy to fix (I'll just
>> need to fix up the device link state).
> 
> Correct, the board seems to boot fine, we just get this warning.


Have you had chance to look at this further?

The following does appear to avoid the warning, but I am not sure if
this is the correct thing to do ...

index 9179825ff646..095aba84f7c2 100644
--- a/drivers/base/dd.c
+++ b/drivers/base/dd.c
@@ -456,6 +456,10 @@ int device_bind_driver(struct device *dev)
 {
        int ret;

+       ret = device_links_check_suppliers(dev);
+       if (ret)
+               return ret;
+
        ret = driver_sysfs_add(dev);
        if (!ret)
                driver_bound(dev);


Cheers
Jon

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