Hi Saravana,

On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 1:05 AM Saravana Kannan [off-list ref] wrote:

On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 3:53 PM Michael Walle [off-list ref] wrote:

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Am 2021-01-20 20:47, schrieb Saravana Kannan:

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On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 11:28 AM Michael Walle [off-list ref]
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Am 2021-01-20 20:02, schrieb Saravana Kannan:

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On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 6:24 AM Rob Herring [off-list ref] wrote:

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On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 4:53 AM Michael Walle [off-list ref]
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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.

Yup. That's pretty much it AFAICT.

builtin_platform_driver_probe() also makes sure the driver doesn't ask
for async probe, etc. But I doubt anyone is actually setting async
flags and still using builtin_platform_driver_probe().

Hasn't module_platform_driver_probe() the same problem? And there
are ~80 drivers which uses that.

Yeah. The biggest problem with all of these is the __init markers.
Maybe some familiar with coccinelle can help?

And dropping them will increase memory usage.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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