Re: [PATCH] arm64: dts: marvell: add unique identifiers for Armada A8k SPI controllers

Marcin Wojtas
2016-11-09T08:50:40Z

Thanks a lot!

Marcin

2016-11-09 9:47 GMT+01:00 Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com>:
> Hi Marcin,
>
> On mar., nov. 08 2016, Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> On Tue, 8 Nov 2016 17:31:32 +0100, Marcin Wojtas wrote:
>>> Enabling SPI controllers, which are attached to different busses
>>> inside an SoC, may result in overlapping enumeration and cause
>>> sysfs registration failure. Example log after enabling two
>>> controllers on Armada 8040 SoC with same identifiers:
>>>
>>> [ 3.740415] sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename
>>> '/class/spi_master/spi0'
>>> [ 3.747510] ------------[ cut here ]------------
>>> [ 3.752145] WARNING: at fs/sysfs/dir.c:31
>>> [...]
>>> [ 4.002299] orion_spi: probe of f4700600.spi failed with error -17
>>>
>>> spi-orion driver offers dedicated DT property ('cell-index'), that
>>> allow setting unique identifiers. Recently added support for CP110-slave
>>> HW block introduced two new SPI controllers' nodes with same ID as
>>> ones from CP110-master.
>>>
>>> This commit fixes the issue by assigning different 'cell-index' values
>>> for CP110-slave SPI controllers.
>>>
>>> Fixes: 4eef78a0091b ("arm64: dts: marvell: add description for the slave
>>> CP110 in Armada 8K")
>>> Signed-off-by: Marcin Wojtas <mw@semihalf.com>
>>
>> It's sad that we need to hardcode those indexes in the Device Tree
>> (which by no means are a description of the HW by the way), but that's
>> what the SPI framework expects I believe. Therefore:
>>
>> Acked-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
>
>
> Applied on mvebu/fixes with acked-by from Thomas.
> In the same time I also applied "arm64: dts: marvell: fix clocksource
> for CP110 slave SPI0" which didn't find his way to mainline yet.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gregory
>
>
>>
>> Thomas
>> --
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>
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> Gregory Clement, Free Electrons
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