Re: [PATCH] firmware: coreboot: Let OF core populate platform device

From: Stephen Boyd
Date: Mon Aug 06 2018 - 14:05:40 EST


Quoting Brian Norris (2018-08-06 10:38:08)
> On Mon, Aug 06, 2018 at 10:10:47AM -0700, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> > Now that the /firmware/coreboot node in DT is populated by the core DT
> > platform code with commit 3aa0582fdb82 ("of: platform: populate
> > /firmware/ node from of_platform_default_populate_init()") we should and
>
> Does this deserve a 'Fixes' tag?
>
> Fixes: 3aa0582fdb82 ("of: platform: populate /firmware/ node from of_platform_default_populate_init()")
>
> The coreboot-of driver was in 4.12, and it seems to have broken in 4.16,
> along with the above patch.

Yes. A fixes tag should be added.

>
> > can remove the platform device creation here. Otherwise, the
> > of_platform_device_create() call will fail, the coreboot of driver won't
> > be registered, and this driver will never bind. At the same time, we can
> > move this driver to use platform device APIs instead of DT specific ones
> > and drop the of_node handling that was presumably placed there to hold a
> > reference to the DT node created during module init.
> >
> > Cc: Wei-Ning Huang <wnhuang@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Julius Werner <jwerner@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Brian Norris <briannorris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Reviewed-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>

Thanks!