Re: [PATCH] phy: work around 'phys' references to usb-nop-xceiv devices

[Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@i2se.com>]

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> Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> hat am 12. Januar 2018 um 11:12 geschrieben:
> 
> 
> Stefan Wahren reports a problem with a warning fix that was merged
> for v4.15: we had lots of device nodes with a 'phys' property pointing
> to a device node that is not compliant with the binding documented in
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/phy/phy-bindings.txt
> 
> This generally works because USB HCD drivers that support both the generic
> phy subsystem and the older usb-phy subsystem ignore most errors from
> phy_get() and related calls and then use the usb-phy driver instead.
> 
> However, it turns out that making the usb-nop-xceiv device compatible with
> the generic-phy binding changes the phy_get() return code from -EINVAL to
> -EPROBE_DEFER, and the dwc2 usb controller driver for bcm2835 now returns
> -EPROBE_DEFER from its probe function rather than ignoring the failure,
> breaking all USB support on raspberry-pi when CONFIG_GENERIC_PHY is
> enabled. The same code is used in the dwc3 driver and the usb_add_hcd()
> function, so a reasonable assumption would be that many other platforms
> are affected as well.
> 
> I have reviewed all the related patches and concluded that "usb-nop-xceiv"
> is the only USB phy that is affected by the change, and since it is by far
> the most commonly referenced phy, all the other USB phy drivers appear
> to be used in ways that are are either safe in DT (they don't use the
> 'phys' property), or in the driver (they already ignore -EPROBE_DEFER
> from generic-phy when usb-phy is available).
> 
> To work around the problem, this adds a special case to _of_phy_get()
> so we ignore any PHY node that is compatible with "usb-nop-xceiv",
> as we know that this can never load no matter how much we defer. In the
> future, we might implement a generic-phy driver for "usb-nop-xceiv"
> and then remove this workaround.
> 
> Since we generally want older kernels to also want to work with the
> fixed devicetree files, it would be good to backport the patch into
> stable kernels as well (3.13+ are possibly affected), even though they
> don't contain any of the patches that may have caused regressions.
> 
> Fixes: 014d6da6cb25 ARM: dts: bcm283x: Fix DTC warnings about missing phy-cells
> Fixes: c5bbf358b790 arm: dts: nspire: Add missing #phy-cells to usb-nop-xceiv
> Fixes: 44e5dced2ef6 arm: dts: marvell: Add missing #phy-cells to usb-nop-xceiv
> Fixes: f568f6f554b8 ARM: dts: omap: Add missing #phy-cells to usb-nop-xceiv
> Fixes: d745d5f277bf ARM: dts: imx51-zii-rdu1: Add missing #phy-cells to usb-nop-xceiv
> Fixes: 915fbe59cbf2 ARM: dts: imx: Add missing #phy-cells to usb-nop-xceiv
> Link: https://marc.info/?l=linux-usb&m=151518314314753&w=2
> Link: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10158145/
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@i2se.com>
> Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org>
> Cc: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
> Tested-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
> Acked-by: Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@ti.com>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

Tested-by: Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@i2se.com>

> ---
>  drivers/phy/phy-core.c | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/phy/phy-core.c b/drivers/phy/phy-core.c
> index b4964b067aec..8f6e8e28996d 100644
> --- a/drivers/phy/phy-core.c
> +++ b/drivers/phy/phy-core.c
> @@ -410,6 +410,10 @@ static struct phy *_of_phy_get(struct device_node *np, int index)
>  	if (ret)
>  		return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
>  
> +	/* This phy type handled by the usb-phy subsystem for now */
> +	if (of_device_is_compatible(args.np, "usb-nop-xceiv"))
> +		return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
> +
>  	mutex_lock(&phy_provider_mutex);
>  	phy_provider = of_phy_provider_lookup(args.np);
>  	if (IS_ERR(phy_provider) || !try_module_get(phy_provider->owner)) {
> -- 
> 2.9.0
>