[PATCH RFC v3 1/8] of: Mark interconnects property supplier as optional

Paul Kocialkowski
2022-03-02T21:11:15Z

In order to set their correct DMA address offset, some devices rely on
the device-tree interconnects property which identifies an
interconnect node that provides a dma-ranges property that can be used
to set said offset.

Since that logic is all handled by the generic openfirmware and driver
code, the device-tree description could be enough to properly set
the offset.

However the interconnects property is currently not marked as
optional, which implies that a driver for the corresponding node
must be loaded as a requirement. When no such driver exists, this
results in an endless EPROBE_DEFER which gets propagated to the
calling driver. This ends up in the driver never loading.

Marking the interconnects property as optional makes it possible
to load the driver in that situation, since the EPROBE_DEFER return
code will no longer be propagated to the driver.

There might however be undesirable consequences with this change,
which I do not fully grasp at this point.

Signed-off-by: Paul Kocialkowski <paul.kocialkowski@bootlin.com>
---
drivers/of/property.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/of/property.c b/drivers/of/property.c
index 8e90071de6ed..ef7c56b510e8 100644
--- a/drivers/of/property.c
+++ b/drivers/of/property.c
@@ -1365,7 +1365,7 @@ static struct device_node *parse_interrupts(struct device_node *np,

static const struct supplier_bindings of_supplier_bindings[] = {
{ .parse_prop = parse_clocks, },
- { .parse_prop = parse_interconnects, },
+ { .parse_prop = parse_interconnects, .optional = true,},
{ .parse_prop = parse_iommus, .optional = true, },
{ .parse_prop = parse_iommu_maps, .optional = true, },
{ .parse_prop = parse_mboxes, },
--
2.35.1