[PATCH] arm64: dts: marvell: add unique identifiers for Armada A8k SPI controllers

[gregory.clement@free-electrons.com (Gregory CLEMENT)]

Hi Marcin,
 
 On mar., nov. 08 2016, Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> wrote:

> 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>


Applied on mvebu/fixes with acked-by from Thomas.
In the same time I also applied "arm64: dts: marvell: fix clocksource
for CP110 slave SPI0" which didn't find his way to mainline yet.

Thanks,

Gregory


>
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