Hi Ulf,

On Fri, Sep 3, 2021 at 11:19 AM Ulf Hansson [off-list ref] wrote:

On Fri, 3 Sept 2021 at 01:04, Saravana Kannan [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

fw_devlink could end up creating device links for bus only devices.
However, bus only devices don't get probed and can block probe() or
sync_state() [1] call backs of other devices. To avoid this, set up
these devices to get probed by the simple-pm-bus.

[1] - https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAPDyKFo9Bxremkb1dDrr4OcXSpE0keVze94Cm=zrkOVxHHxBmQ@mail.gmail.com/ (local)
Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <redacted>
Tested-by: Saravana Kannan <redacted>

Again, this looks like a nice solution to the problem.

One question though. The Kconfig SIMPLE_PM_BUS, should probably be
"default y" - or something along those lines to make sure fw_devlink
works as expected.

I would love for SIMPLE_PM_BUS to go away, and all of its functionality
to be usurped by the standard simple-bus handling.

In the modern world, everything uses power management and Runtime
PM, and the distinction between "simple-bus" and "simple-pm-bus"
is purely artificial.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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