From: thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com (Thomas Petazzoni)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] arm64: dts: marvell: add unique identifiers for Armada A8k SPI controllers
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2016 17:48:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161108174851.2cd8efb4@free-electrons.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1478622692-18441-1-git-send-email-mw@semihalf.com>
Hello,
On Tue, 8 Nov 2016 17:31:32 +0100, Marcin Wojtas wrote:
> Enabling SPI controllers, which are attached to different busses
> inside an SoC, may result in overlapping enumeration and cause
> sysfs registration failure. Example log after enabling two
> controllers on Armada 8040 SoC with same identifiers:
>
> [ 3.740415] sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename
> '/class/spi_master/spi0'
> [ 3.747510] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [ 3.752145] WARNING: at fs/sysfs/dir.c:31
> [...]
> [ 4.002299] orion_spi: probe of f4700600.spi failed with error -17
>
> spi-orion driver offers dedicated DT property ('cell-index'), that
> allow setting unique identifiers. Recently added support for CP110-slave
> HW block introduced two new SPI controllers' nodes with same ID as
> ones from CP110-master.
>
> This commit fixes the issue by assigning different 'cell-index' values
> for CP110-slave SPI controllers.
>
> Fixes: 4eef78a0091b ("arm64: dts: marvell: add description for the slave
> CP110 in Armada 8K")
> Signed-off-by: Marcin Wojtas <mw@semihalf.com>
It's sad that we need to hardcode those indexes in the Device Tree
(which by no means are a description of the HW by the way), but that's
what the SPI framework expects I believe. Therefore:
Acked-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Thomas
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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: Marcin Wojtas <mw@semihalf.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com, andrew@lunn.ch,
jason@lakedaemon.net, gregory.clement@free-electrons.com,
will.deacon@arm.com, robh+dt@kernel.org, mark.rutland@arm.com,
nadavh@marvell.com, alior@marvell.com, jaz@semihalf.com,
tn@semihalf.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: dts: marvell: add unique identifiers for Armada A8k SPI controllers
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2016 17:48:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161108174851.2cd8efb4@free-electrons.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1478622692-18441-1-git-send-email-mw@semihalf.com>
Hello,
On Tue, 8 Nov 2016 17:31:32 +0100, Marcin Wojtas wrote:
> Enabling SPI controllers, which are attached to different busses
> inside an SoC, may result in overlapping enumeration and cause
> sysfs registration failure. Example log after enabling two
> controllers on Armada 8040 SoC with same identifiers:
>
> [ 3.740415] sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename
> '/class/spi_master/spi0'
> [ 3.747510] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [ 3.752145] WARNING: at fs/sysfs/dir.c:31
> [...]
> [ 4.002299] orion_spi: probe of f4700600.spi failed with error -17
>
> spi-orion driver offers dedicated DT property ('cell-index'), that
> allow setting unique identifiers. Recently added support for CP110-slave
> HW block introduced two new SPI controllers' nodes with same ID as
> ones from CP110-master.
>
> This commit fixes the issue by assigning different 'cell-index' values
> for CP110-slave SPI controllers.
>
> Fixes: 4eef78a0091b ("arm64: dts: marvell: add description for the slave
> CP110 in Armada 8K")
> Signed-off-by: Marcin Wojtas <mw@semihalf.com>
It's sad that we need to hardcode those indexes in the Device Tree
(which by no means are a description of the HW by the way), but that's
what the SPI framework expects I believe. Therefore:
Acked-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Thomas
--
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-08 16:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-08 16:31 [PATCH] arm64: dts: marvell: add unique identifiers for Armada A8k SPI controllers Marcin Wojtas
2016-11-08 16:31 ` Marcin Wojtas
2016-11-08 16:48 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2016-11-08 16:48 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-11-08 16:52 ` Marcin Wojtas
2016-11-08 16:52 ` Marcin Wojtas
2016-11-09 8:47 ` Gregory CLEMENT
2016-11-09 8:47 ` Gregory CLEMENT
2016-11-09 8:50 ` Marcin Wojtas
2016-11-09 8:50 ` Marcin Wojtas
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