Re: [PATCH tty-next] serial: 8250: of: Check for CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_BCM7271

[Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 9:34 PM Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: Jim Quinlan <jim2101024@gmail.com>
>
> Our SoC's have always had a NS16650A UART core and older SoC's would
> have a compatible string of: 'compatible = ""ns16550a"' and use the
> 8250_of driver. Our newer SoC's have added enhancements to the base
> core to add support for DMA and accurate high speed baud rates and use
> this newer 8250_bcm7271 driver. The Device Tree node for our enhanced
> UARTs has a compatible string of: 'compatible = "brcm,bcm7271-uart",
> "ns16550a"''. With both drivers running and the link order setup so
> that the 8250_bcm7217 driver is initialized before the 8250_of driver,
> we should bind the 8250_bcm7271 driver to the enhanced UART, or for
> upstream kernels that don't have the 8250_bcm7271 driver, we bind to
> the 8250_of driver.
>
> The problem is that when both the 8250_of and 8250_bcm7271 drivers
> were running, occasionally the 8250_of driver would be bound to the
> enhanced UART instead of the 8250_bcm7271 driver. This was happening
> because we use SCMI based clocks which come up late in initialization
> and cause probe DEFER's when the two drivers get their clocks.
>
> Occasionally the SCMI clock would become ready between the 8250_bcm7271
> probe and the 8250_of probe and the 8250_of driver would be bound. To
> fix this we decided to config only our 8250_bcm7271 driver and added
> "ns16665a0" to the compatible string so the driver would work on our
> older system.
>
> This commit has of_platform_serial_probe() check specifically for the
> "brcm,bcm7271-uart" and whether its companion driver is enabled. If it
> is the case, and the clock provider is not ready, we want to make sure
> that when the 8250_bcm7271.c driver returns EPROBE_DEFER, we are not
> getting the UART registered via 8250_of.c.

Thanks!

Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>

> Signed-off-by: Jim Quinlan <jim2101024@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Al Cooper <alcooperx@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_of.c | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_of.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_of.c
> index 0b077b45d6a9..bce28729dd7b 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_of.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_of.c
> @@ -192,6 +192,10 @@ static int of_platform_serial_probe(struct platform_device *ofdev)
>         u32 tx_threshold;
>         int ret;
>
> +       if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_BCM7271) &&
> +           of_device_is_compatible(ofdev->dev.of_node, "brcm,bcm7271-uart"))
> +               return -ENODEV;
> +
>         port_type = (unsigned long)of_device_get_match_data(&ofdev->dev);
>         if (port_type == PORT_UNKNOWN)
>                 return -EINVAL;
> --
> 2.25.1
>


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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko