Message ID | 20250507071315.394857-1-herve.codina@bootlin.com |
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Headers | show |
Series | lan966x pci device: Add support for SFPs | expand |
On Wed, May 07, 2025 at 09:12:59AM +0200, Herve Codina wrote: > PCI drivers can use a device-tree overlay to describe the hardware > available on the PCI board. This is the case, for instance, of the > LAN966x PCI device driver. > > Adding some more nodes in the device-tree overlay adds some more > consumer/supplier relationship between devices instantiated from this > overlay. > > Those fw_node consumer/supplier relationships are handled by fw_devlink > and are created based on the device-tree parsing done by the > of_fwnode_add_links() function. > > Those consumer/supplier links are needed in order to ensure a correct PM > runtime management and a correct removal order between devices. > > For instance, without those links a supplier can be removed before its > consumers is removed leading to all kind of issue if this consumer still are removed OR consumer > want the use the already removed supplier. > > The support for the usage of an overlay from a PCI driver has been added > on x86 systems in commit 1f340724419ed ("PCI: of: Create device tree PCI > host bridge node"). > > In the past, support for fw_devlink on x86 had been tried but this > support has been removed in commit 4a48b66b3f52 ("of: property: Disable > fw_devlink DT support for X86"). Indeed, this support was breaking some > x86 systems such as OLPC system and the regression was reported in [0]. > > Instead of disabling this support for all x86 system, a first approach > would be to use a finer grain and disable this support only for the > possible problematic subset of x86 systems (at least OLPC and CE4100). > > This first approach could still leads to issues. Indeed, the list of > possible problematic system and the way to identify them using Kconfig > symbols is not well defined and so some system can be missed leading to > kernel regressions on those missing systems. > > Use an other way and enable the support on x86 system only when this > support is needed by some specific feature. The usage of a device-tree > overlay by a PCI driver and thus the creation of PCI device-tree nodes > is a feature that needs it. > > Signed-off-by: Herve Codina <herve.codina@bootlin.com> > link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/3c1f2473-92ad-bfc4-258e-a5a08ad73dd0@web.de/ [0] Link: (mind capitalisation) Otherwise LGTM, FWIW, Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>