Re: [PATCH] PCI: dwc: layerscape: convert to builtin_platform_driver()

Saravana Kannan
2021-01-26T01:25:06Z

On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 8:50 AM Lorenzo Pieralisi
<lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 08:28:36PM +0100, Michael Walle wrote:
> > [RESEND, fat-fingered the buttons of my mail client and converted
> > all CCs to BCCs :(]
> >
> > Am 2021-01-20 20:02, schrieb Saravana Kannan:
> > > On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 6:24 AM Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 4:53 AM Michael Walle <michael@walle.cc>
> > > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > fw_devlink will defer the probe until all suppliers are ready. We can't
> > > > > use builtin_platform_driver_probe() because it doesn't retry after probe
> > > > > deferral. Convert it to builtin_platform_driver().
> > > >
> > > > If builtin_platform_driver_probe() doesn't work with fw_devlink, then
> > > > shouldn't it be fixed or removed?
> > >
> > > I was actually thinking about this too. The problem with fixing
> > > builtin_platform_driver_probe() to behave like
> > > builtin_platform_driver() is that these probe functions could be
> > > marked with __init. But there are also only 20 instances of
> > > builtin_platform_driver_probe() in the kernel:
> > > $ git grep ^builtin_platform_driver_probe | wc -l
> > > 20
> > >
> > > So it might be easier to just fix them to not use
> > > builtin_platform_driver_probe().
> > >
> > > Michael,
> > >
> > > Any chance you'd be willing to help me by converting all these to
> > > builtin_platform_driver() and delete builtin_platform_driver_probe()?
> >
> > If it just moving the probe function to the _driver struct and
> > remove the __init annotations. I could look into that.
>
> Can I drop this patch then ?

No, please pick it up. Michael and I were talking about doing similar
changes for other drivers.

-Saravana