On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 11:35:36PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 12-04-19 15:41, Heikki Krogerus wrote:
> > Now that the software nodes support references, and the
> > device connection API support parsing fwnode references,
> > replacing the old connection descriptions with software node
> > references. Relying on device names when matching the
> > connection would not have been possible to link the USB
> > Type-C connector and the DisplayPort connector together, but
> > with real references it's not problem.
> >
> > The DisplayPort ACPI node is dag up, and the drivers own
> > software node for the DisplayPort is set as the secondary
> > node for it. The USB Type-C connector refers the software
> > node, but it is now tied to the ACPI node, and therefore any
> > device entry (struct drm_connector in practice) that the
> > node combo is assigned to.
> >
> > The USB role switch device does not have ACPI node, so we
> > have to wait for the device to appear. Then we can simply
> > assign our software node for the to the device.
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> So as promised I've been testing this series and this commit
> breaks type-c functionality on devices using this driver.
>
> The problem is that typec_switch_get() and typec_mux_get()
> after this both return the same pointer, which is pointing
> to the switch, so typec_mux_get() is returning the wrong
> pointer.
>
> This is not surprising since the references for both are
> both pointing to the fwnode attached to the piusb30532 devices:
>
> args[0].fwnode = data->node[INT33FE_NODE_PI3USB30532];
>
> So the class_find_device here:
>
> static void *typec_switch_match(struct device_connection *con, int ep,
> void *data)
> {
> struct device *dev;
>
> if (con->fwnode) {
> if (con->id && !fwnode_property_present(con->fwnode, con->id))
> return NULL;
>
> dev = class_find_device(&typec_mux_class, NULL, con->fwnode,
> fwnode_match);
> } else {
> dev = class_find_device(&typec_mux_class, NULL,
> con->endpoint[ep], name_match);
> }
>
> return dev ? to_typec_switch(dev) : ERR_PTR(-EPROBE_DEFER);
> }
>
> Simply returns the first typec_mux_class device registered.
>
> I see 2 possible solutions to this problem:
>
> 1) Use separate typec_mux_class and typec_orientation_switch_class-es
>
> 2) Merge struct typec_switch and struct typec_mux into a single struct,
> so that all typec_mux_class devices have the same memory layout, add
> a subclass enum to this new merged struct and use that to identify
> which of the typec_mux_class devices with the same fwnode pointer we
> want.
>
> Any other suggestions?
I think the correct fix is that we supply separate nodes for both
device entries.
thanks,
--
heikki
