[PATCH v2 0/3] Make fw_devlink=on more forgiving

[Saravana Kannan]

This patch series solves two general issues with fw_devlink=on

Patch 1/3 and 3/3 addresses the issue of firmware nodes that look like
they'll have struct devices created for them, but will never actually
have struct devices added for them. For example, DT nodes with a
compatible property that don't have devices added for them.

Patch 2/2 address (for static kernels) the issue of optional suppliers
that'll never have a driver registered for them. So, if the device could
have probed with fw_devlink=permissive with a static kernel, this patch
should allow those devices to probe with a fw_devlink=on. This doesn't
solve it for the case where modules are enabled because there's no way
to tell if a driver will never be registered or it's just about to be
registered. I have some other ideas for that, but it'll have to come
later thinking about it a bit.

Marek, Geert,

I don't expect v2 to do any better for your cases.

This series not making any difference for Marek is still a mystery to
me. I guess one of the consumers doesn't take too well to its probe (and
it's consumers' probe) being delayed till late_initcall(). I'll continue
looking into it.

Marc,

This v2 should do better than v1 with gpiolib stub driver reverted. I
forgot to take care of the case where more suppliers could link after I
went and deleted some of the links. v2 handles that now.

Tudor,

You should still make the clock driver fix (because it's a bug), but I
think this series will fix your issue too (even without the clock driver
fix). Can you please give this a shot?

Martin,

If you tested this series, can you please give a Tested-by?

Thanks,
Saravana

v1 -> v2:
Patch 1: Added a flag to fwnodes that aren't devices.
Patch 3: New patch to ise the flag set in patch 1 to not create bad links.

Saravana Kannan (3):
  driver core: fw_devlink: Detect supplier devices that will never be
    added
  driver core: fw_devlink: Handle missing drivers for optional suppliers
  of: property: Don't add links to absent suppliers

 drivers/base/base.h    |   2 +
 drivers/base/core.c    | 135 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 drivers/base/dd.c      |   5 ++
 drivers/of/property.c  |   4 +-
 include/linux/fwnode.h |   2 +
 5 files changed, 127 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

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