On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 12:36 PM, Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 10:00 AM, Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Commit 44a7185c2ae6 ("of/platform: Add common method to populate default
>> bus") added new arch_initcall of_platform_default_populate_init() that
>> will be called before device_initcall octeon_publish_devices(). Now the
>> of_platform_bus_probe() called in octeon_publish_devices() is apparently
>> doing nothing:
>>
>> [ 52.331353] calling octeon_publish_devices+0x0/0x14 @ 1
>> [ 52.331358] OF: of_platform_bus_probe()
>> [ 52.331362] OF: starting at: /
>> [ 52.331378] OF: of_platform_bus_create() - skipping /soc@0, already populated
>> [ 52.331394] initcall octeon_publish_devices+0x0/0x14 returned 0 after 29 usecs
>>
>> This also means that USB etc. won't get probed.
>>
>> Any ideas what would be the proper fix for this? Changing
>> octeon_publish_devices() to arch_initcall seems to work but that may be
>> a bit hackish... Also, there might be also other MIPS boards affected
>> (arch/mips/netlogic/xlp/dt.c, arch/mips/mti-malta/malta-dt.c).
>
> Can you try reverting this hunk. I don't think it should be needed and
> it is preventing /soc@0 children from being probed. If things still
> don't work, then it should purely be a probe ordering problem. I have
> some better fixes in mind, but not for 4.8. So if this doesn't work,
> then the same fix as PPC is fine.
Nevermind, reverting this hunk is not enough.
Rob
