On Sat, 17 Feb 2024 at 17:03, Johan Hovold <johan+lin...@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> Due to a long-standing issue in driver core, drivers may not probe defer
> after having registered child devices to avoid triggering a probe
> deferral loop (see fbc35b45f9f6 ("Add documentation on meaning of
> -EPROBE_DEFER")).
>
> Move registration of the typec switch to after looking up clocks and
> other resources.
>
> Note that PHY creation can in theory also trigger a probe deferral when
> a 'phy' supply is used. This does not seem to affect the QMP PHY driver
> but the PHY subsystem should be reworked to address this (i.e. by
> separating initialisation and registration of the PHY).
>
> Fixes: 2851117f8f42 ("phy: qcom-qmp-combo: Introduce orientation switching")
> Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org # 6.5
> Cc: Bjorn Andersson <quic_bjora...@quicinc.com>
> Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan+lin...@kernel.org>
> ---
> drivers/phy/qualcomm/phy-qcom-qmp-combo.c | 8 ++++----
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.barysh...@linaro.org>
Note to myself (or to anybody else, who has spare hands), we should
probably implement the same changes for phy-qcom-qmp-usbc.c
>
> diff --git a/drivers/phy/qualcomm/phy-qcom-qmp-combo.c
> b/drivers/phy/qualcomm/phy-qcom-qmp-combo.c
> index e19d6a084f10..17c4ad7553a5 100644
> --- a/drivers/phy/qualcomm/phy-qcom-qmp-combo.c
> +++ b/drivers/phy/qualcomm/phy-qcom-qmp-combo.c
> @@ -3562,10 +3562,6 @@ static int qmp_combo_probe(struct platform_device
> *pdev)
> if (ret)
> return ret;
>
> - ret = qmp_combo_typec_switch_register(qmp);
> - if (ret)
> - return ret;
> -
> /* Check for legacy binding with child nodes. */
> usb_np = of_get_child_by_name(dev->of_node, "usb3-phy");
> if (usb_np) {
> @@ -3585,6 +3581,10 @@ static int qmp_combo_probe(struct platform_device
> *pdev)
> if (ret)
> goto err_node_put;
>
> + ret = qmp_combo_typec_switch_register(qmp);
> + if (ret)
> + goto err_node_put;
> +
> ret = drm_aux_bridge_register(dev);
> if (ret)
> goto err_node_put;
> --
> 2.43.0
>
--
With best wishes
Dmitry
