Similar as with tcpm this patch lets fw_devlink know not to wait on the
fwnode to be populated as a struct device.
Without this patch, USB functionality can be broken on some previously
supported boards.
Fixes: 28ec344bb891 ("usb: typec: tcpm: Don't block probing of consumers of "connector" nodes")
Signed-off-by: Martin Kepplinger <martin.kepplinger@xxxxxxx>
---
revision history
----------------
v2: (thank you Saravana)
* add a code-comment why the call is needed.
v1:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-usb/20210713073946.102501-1-martin.kepplinger@xxxxxxx/
drivers/usb/typec/tipd/core.c | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/usb/typec/tipd/core.c b/drivers/usb/typec/tipd/core.c
index 938219bc1b4b..21b3ae25c76d 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/typec/tipd/core.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/typec/tipd/core.c
@@ -629,6 +629,15 @@ static int tps6598x_probe(struct i2c_client *client)
if (!fwnode)
return -ENODEV;
+ /*
+ * This fwnode has a "compatible" property, but is never populated as a
+ * struct device. Instead we simply parse it to read the properties.
+ * This breaks fw_devlink=on. To maintain backward compatibility
+ * with existing DT files, we work around this by deleting any
+ * fwnode_links to/from this fwnode.
+ */
+ fw_devlink_purge_absent_suppliers(fwnode);
+
tps->role_sw = fwnode_usb_role_switch_get(fwnode);
if (IS_ERR(tps->role_sw)) {
ret = PTR_ERR(tps->role_sw);
--
2.30.2
