Re: [PATCH] drm/rockchip: skip probed failed device

["Heiko Stübner" <heiko@sntech.de>]

Am Mittwoch, 23. September 2020, 13:05:26 CEST schrieb Robin Murphy:
> On 2020-09-23 07:59, Jian-Hong Pan wrote:
> > The cdn-dp sub driver probes the device failed on PINEBOOK Pro.
> > 
> > kernel: cdn-dp fec00000.dp: [drm:cdn_dp_probe [rockchipdrm]] *ERROR* missing extcon or phy
> > kernel: cdn-dp: probe of fec00000.dp failed with error -22
> 
> Wouldn't it make more sense to simply not enable the DisplayPort node in 
> the upstream DT, until the type-C phy work has been done to make it 
> usable at all?

Or alternatively just disable the cdn-dp Rockchip driver in the kernel config,
which results in it also not getting probed.


> AIUI the "official" Manjaro kernel is carrying a bunch of 
> hacks to make type-C work via extcon, but they know that isn't an 
> upstreamable solution.
> 
> Robin.
> 
> > Then, the device halts all of the DRM related device jobs. For example,
> > the operations: vop_component_ops, vop_component_ops and
> > rockchip_dp_component_ops cannot be bound to corresponding devices. So,
> > Xorg cannot find the correct DRM device.
> > 
> > This patch skips the probing failed devices to fix this issue.
> > 
> > Link: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-rockchip/2020-September/022352.html
> > Signed-off-by: Jian-Hong Pan <jhp@endlessos.org>
> > ---
> >   drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip/rockchip_drm_drv.c | 6 ++++++
> >   1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip/rockchip_drm_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip/rockchip_drm_drv.c
> > index 0f3eb392fe39..de13588602b4 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip/rockchip_drm_drv.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/rockchip/rockchip_drm_drv.c
> > @@ -331,6 +331,12 @@ static struct component_match *rockchip_drm_match_add(struct device *dev)
> >   
> >   			if (!d)
> >   				break;
> > +			if (!d->driver) {
> > +				DRM_DEV_ERROR(d,
> > +					      "%s did not probe successfully",
> > +					      drv->driver.name);
> > +				continue;
> > +			}
> >   
> >   			device_link_add(dev, d, DL_FLAG_STATELESS);
> >   			component_match_add(dev, &match, compare_dev, d);
> > 
>