RE: [RFC v1 PATCH 1/3] drivers: soc: add support for soc_device_match returning -EPROBE_DEFER

["Alice Guo (OSS)" <alice.guo@oss.nxp.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dominique MARTINET <dominique.martinet@atmark-techno.com>
> Sent: 2021年4月19日 12:49
> To: Alice Guo (OSS) <alice.guo@oss.nxp.com>
> Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org; rafael@kernel.org; Horia Geanta
> <horia.geanta@nxp.com>; Aymen Sghaier <aymen.sghaier@nxp.com>;
> herbert@gondor.apana.org.au; davem@davemloft.net; tony@atomide.com;
> geert+renesas@glider.be; mturquette@baylibre.com; sboyd@kernel.org;
> vkoul@kernel.org; peter.ujfalusi@gmail.com; a.hajda@samsung.com;
> narmstrong@baylibre.com; robert.foss@linaro.org; airlied@linux.ie;
> daniel@ffwll.ch; khilman@baylibre.com; tomba@kernel.org; jyri.sarha@iki.fi;
> joro@8bytes.org; will@kernel.org; mchehab@kernel.org;
> ulf.hansson@linaro.org; adrian.hunter@intel.com; kishon@ti.com;
> kuba@kernel.org; linus.walleij@linaro.org; Roy Pledge <roy.pledge@nxp.com>;
> Leo Li <leoyang.li@nxp.com>; ssantosh@kernel.org; matthias.bgg@gmail.com;
> edubezval@gmail.com; j-keerthy@ti.com; balbi@kernel.org;
> linux@prisktech.co.nz; stern@rowland.harvard.edu; wim@linux-watchdog.org;
> linux@roeck-us.net; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org;
> linux-omap@vger.kernel.org; linux-renesas-soc@vger.kernel.org;
> linux-clk@vger.kernel.org; dmaengine@vger.kernel.org;
> dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org; linux-amlogic@lists.infradead.org;
> linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org; iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org;
> linux-media@vger.kernel.org; linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org;
> netdev@vger.kernel.org; linux-phy@lists.infradead.org;
> linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org; linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org;
> linux-staging@lists.linux.dev; linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org;
> linux-pm@vger.kernel.org; linux-usb@vger.kernel.org;
> linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: [RFC v1 PATCH 1/3] drivers: soc: add support for soc_device_match
> returning -EPROBE_DEFER
> 
> First comment overall for the whole serie:
> Since it is the solution I had suggested when I reported the problem[1] I have no
> qualm on the approach, comments for individual patches follow.
> 
> [1] http://lore.kernel.org/r/YGGZJjAxA1IO+/VU@atmark-techno.com
> 
> 
> Alice Guo (OSS) wrote on Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 12:27:20PM +0800:
> > From: Alice Guo <alice.guo@nxp.com>
> >
> > In i.MX8M boards, the registration of SoC device is later than caam
> > driver which needs it. Caam driver needs soc_device_match to provide
> > -EPROBE_DEFER when no SoC device is registered and no
> > early_soc_dev_attr.
> 
> This patch should be last in the set: you can't have soc_device_match return an
> error before its callers handle it.
> 
> > Signed-off-by: Alice Guo <alice.guo@nxp.com>
> 
> As the one who reported the problem I would have been appreciated being at
> least added to Ccs... I only happened to notice you posted this by chance.

Sorry. I will Cc you next time.

> There is also not a single Fixes tag -- I believe this commit should have Fixes:
> 7d981405d0fd ("soc: imx8m: change to use platform driver") but I'm not sure
> how such tags should be handled in case of multiple patches fixing something.

I only mentioned "soc: imx8m: change to use platform driver" in cover letter.
If it is acceptable to make such a modification, I will send non-RFC and add Fixes tag.

Best Regards,
Alice

> --
> Dominique