Re: [PATCH] soc: brcmstb: Only register SoC device on STB platforms

Olof Johansson
2018-01-12T01:02:12Z

On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 03:54:09PM +0100, Thierry Reding wrote:
> From: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>
>
> After moving the SoC device initialization to an early initcall in
> commit f780429adfbc ("soc: brcmstb: biuctrl: Move to early_initcall"),
> the Broadcom STB SoC device is registered on all platforms if support
> for the device is enabled in the kernel configuration.
>
> This causes an additional SoC device to appear on platforms that already
> register a native one. In case of Tegra the STB SoC device is registered
> as soc0 (with totally meaningless content in the sysfs attributes) and
> causes various scripts and programs to fail because they don't know how
> to parse that data.
>
> To fix this, duplicate the check from brcmstb_soc_device_early_init()
> that already prevents the code from doing anything nonsensical on non-
> STB platforms.
>
> Fixes: f780429adfbc ("soc: brcmstb: biuctrl: Move to early_initcall")
> Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>
> ---

Thanks, applied.

-Olof