Re: [PATCH RFC] gpiolib: ensure that fwnode is properly set

[Neil Armstrong]

On 14/11/2022 21:29, Brian Masney wrote:
> Note that this is a RFC patch and not meant to be merged. I looked into
> a problem with linux-next-20221110 on the Qualcomm SA8540P automotive
> board (sc8280xp) where the UFS host controller would fail to probe due
> to repeated probe deferrals when trying to get reset-gpios via
> devm_gpiod_get_optional().
>
> of_get_named_gpiod_flags() returns -EPROBE_DEFER, which is caused by
> of_gpiochip_match_node_and_xlate() returning 0 since the of_xlate function
> pointer is not set for the qcom,sc8280xp-tlmm pinctrl driver. The
> pinctrl driver doesn't define one, so of_gpiochip_add() should
> automatically setup of_gpio_simple_xlate() on it's behalf. This doesn't
> happen since the fwnode member on the struct gpiochip is set to null
> when of_gpiochip_add() is called. Let's work around this by ensuring
> that it's set if available.
>
> Note that this broke sometime within the last few weeks within
> linux-next and I haven't bisected this. I'm posting this in the hopes
> that someone may know offhand which patch(es) may have broken this.
>
> Signed-off-by: Brian Masney <bmasney@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
> index 11fb7ec883e9..8bec66008869 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c
> @@ -678,7 +678,7 @@ int gpiochip_add_data_with_key(struct gpio_chip *gc, void *data,
>   	 * Assign fwnode depending on the result of the previous calls,
>   	 * if none of them succeed, assign it to the parent's one.
>   	 */
> -	gdev->dev.fwnode = dev_fwnode(&gdev->dev) ?: fwnode;
> +	gc->fwnode = gdev->dev.fwnode = dev_fwnode(&gdev->dev) ?: fwnode;
>   
>   	gdev->id = ida_alloc(&gpio_ida, GFP_KERNEL);
>   	if (gdev->id < 0) {

Fixes boot on 8550 on next-20221115

Tested-by: Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,
Neil