Re: [PATCH 02/12] media: i2c: ov8865: Add an has_unmet_acpi_deps() check

[Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>]

Hi Hans,

Thank you for the patch.

On Fri, Oct 08, 2021 at 06:21:11PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> The clk and regulator frameworks expect clk/regulator consumer-devices
> to have info about the consumed clks/regulators described in the device's
> fw_node.
> 
> To work around cases where this info is not present in the firmware tables,
> which is often the case on x86/ACPI devices, both frameworks allow the
> provider-driver to attach info about consumers to the clks/regulators
> when registering these.
> 
> This causes problems with the probe ordering of the ov8865 driver vs the
> drivers for these clks/regulators. Since the lookups are only registered
> when the provider-driver binds, trying to get these clks/regulators before
> then results in a -ENOENT error for clks and a dummy regulator for regs.
> 
> On ACPI/x86 where this is a problem, the ov8865 ACPI fw-nodes have a _DEP
> dependency on the INT3472 ACPI fw-node which describes the hardware which
> provides the clks/regulators.
> 
> The drivers/platform/x86/intel/int3472/ code dealing with these ACPI
> fw-nodes will call acpi_dev_clear_dependencies() to indicate that this
> _DEP has been "met" when all the clks/regulators have been setup.
> 
> Call the has_unmet_acpi_deps() helper to check for unmet _DEPs
> and return -EPROBE_DEFER if this returns true, so that we wait for
> the clk/regulator setup to be done before continuing with probing.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
> ---
>  drivers/media/i2c/ov8865.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/media/i2c/ov8865.c b/drivers/media/i2c/ov8865.c
> index ce4e0ae2c4d3..fd18d1256f78 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/i2c/ov8865.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/i2c/ov8865.c
> @@ -2978,6 +2978,9 @@ static int ov8865_probe(struct i2c_client *client)
>  	unsigned int i;
>  	int ret;
>  
> +	if (has_unmet_acpi_deps(dev))
> +		return -EPROBE_DEFER;
> +

We've worked hard to avoid adding ACPI-specific code such as this in
sensor drivers, as it would then spread like crazy, and also open the
door to more ACPI-specific support. I don't want to open this pandora's
box, I'd like to see this handled in another layer (the I2C core could
be a condidate for instance, but bonus points if it can be handled in
the ACPI subsystem itself).

>  	sensor = devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(*sensor), GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (!sensor)
>  		return -ENOMEM;

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart