Re: [PATCH v2 7/9] driver core: Set fw_devlink.strict=1 by default

Sascha Hauer
2022-06-22T11:19:13Z

On Wed, Jun 22, 2022 at 12:52:02PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2022 at 10:44 AM Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 22, 2022 at 9:48 AM Sascha Hauer <sha@pengutronix.de> wrote:
>
> ...
>
> > > This patch has the effect that console UART devices which have "dmas"
> > > properties specified in the device tree get deferred for 10 to 20
> > > seconds. This happens on i.MX and likely on other SoCs as well. On i.MX
> > > the dma channel is only requested at UART startup time and not at probe
> > > time. dma is not used for the console. Nevertheless with this driver probe
> > > defers until the dma engine driver is available.
> > >
> > > It shouldn't go in as-is.
> >
> > This affects all machines with the PL011 UART and DMAs specified as
> > well.
> >
> > It would be best if the console subsystem could be treated special and
> > not require DMA devlink to be satisfied before probing.
>
> In 8250 we force disable DMA and PM on kernel consoles, because it's
> so-o PITA and has a lot of corner cases we may never chase down.

On i.MX this is done as well, but it doesn't help here. The driver is
not even probed when the device node contains a "dmas" property.

Sascha

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