Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] PCI/pwrctl: Ensure that the pwrctl drivers are probed before the PCI client drivers

[Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org>]

On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 10:10:47AM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 25, 2024 at 01:24:53PM +0530, Manivannan Sadhasivam via B4 Relay wrote:
> > From: Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org>
> > 
> > As per the kernel device driver model, pwrctl device is the supplier for
> > the PCI device. But the device link that enforces the supplier-consumer
> > relationship is created inside the pwrctl driver currently. Due to this,
> > the driver model doesn't prevent probing of the PCI client drivers before
> > probing the corresponding pwrctl drivers. This may lead to a race condition
> > if the PCI device was already powered on by the bootloader (before the
> > pwrctl driver).
> 
> > +	 * Create a device link between the PCI device and pwrctl device (if
> > +	 * exists). This ensures that the pwrctl drivers are probed before the
> > +	 * PCI client drivers.
> > +	 */
> > +	pdev = of_find_device_by_node(dn);
> > +	if (pdev) {
> > +		if (!device_link_add(&dev->dev, &pdev->dev, DL_FLAG_AUTOREMOVE_CONSUMER))
> > +			pci_err(dev, "failed to add device link between %s and %s\n",
> > +				dev_name(&dev->dev), pdev->name);
> 
> This prints the name for "dev" twice (once by pci_err(dev) and again
> from dev_name(&dev->dev)).  Is it helpful to see it twice here?

Hmm, not very much. It could be reworded as below:

	pci_err(dev, "failed to link: %s\n", pdev->name);

- Mani

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