Re: [PATCH v6 0/2] soc: ti: k3-socinfo: Add module build support to the k3 socinfo driver

From: Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com>
To: Kevin Hilman <khilman@baylibre.com>
Cc: <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <nfrayer@baylibre.com>,
	Santosh Shilimkar <ssantosh@kernel.org>, <glaroque@baylibre.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/2] soc: ti: k3-socinfo: Add module build support to the k3 socinfo driver
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2022 16:41:02 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221122224102.xchwn5d3k64bedgj@antitoxic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7ha64iaf6t.fsf@baylibre.com>

On 12:48-20221122, Kevin Hilman wrote:
> Hi Nishanth,
> 
> Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com> writes:
> 
> > Hi Nicolas Frayer,
> >
> > On Thu, 17 Nov 2022 10:54:17 +0100, Nicolas Frayer wrote:
> >> In order for the TI K3 SoC info driver to be built as a module, the
> >> following changes have been made:
> >> - Converted memory allocations to devm and added the remove callback
> >> - Added necessary code to build the driver as a module
> >> 
> >> v2->v3:
> >> dropped module conversion part of this series while other driver
> >> dependencies on socinfo are worked out.
> >> A dependency issue is introduced by changing subsys_initcall()
> >> to module_platform_driver(). Some drivers using the socinfo information
> >> probe before the socinfo driver itself and it makes their probe fail.
> >> 
> >> [...]
> >
> > I have applied the following to branch ti-drivers-soc-next on [1].
> > Thank you!
> 
> Sorry for the churn here, but I think these need to be reverted.
> 
> We've discoverd some more complexities/issues when socinfo is modular,
> and I think the socinfo core code needs some work before this can
> actually work reliably for all socinfo users.
> 
> Basically, I think we need to finish converting all the socinfo users to
> modules before we can be sure of all the corner cases when socinfo
> itself is a module.
> 
> Sorry about this churn, but I think it's better to be a bit conservative
> here and revert before this lands in mainline.

Understood, and thanks for the headsup and explanation offline (explains
why I had'nt caught it in my regression checks). I have
dropped the series (since we managed to catch it just in time before
arnd picked it up), updated the next and send out a new PR.

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Regards,
Nishanth Menon
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