Re: [PATCH v3] net: ethernet: davicom: fix devicetree irq resource

From: Sergei Ianovich
Date: Sun Feb 21 2016 - 19:54:29 EST


On Sat, 2016-02-20 at 21:45 +0100, Robert Jarzmik wrote:
> The dm9000 driver doesn't work in at least one device-tree
> configuration, spitting an error message on irq resource :
> [ÂÂÂÂ1.062495] dm9000 8000000.ethernet: insufficient resources
> [ÂÂÂÂ1.068439] dm9000 8000000.ethernet: not found (-2).
> [ÂÂÂÂ1.073451] dm9000: probe of 8000000.ethernet failed with error -2
>
> The reason behind is that the interrupt might be provided by a gpio
> controller, not probed when dm9000 is probed, and needing the probe
> deferral mechanism to apply.
>
> Currently, the interrupt is directly taken from resources. This patch
> changes this to use the more generic platform_get_irq(), which
> handles
> the deferral.
>
> Moreover, since commit Fixes: 7085a7401ba5 ("drivers: platform: parse
> IRQ flags from resources"), the interrupt trigger flags are honored
> in
> platform_get_irq(), so remove the needless code in dm9000.
>
> Signed-off-by: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@xxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Marcel Ziswiler <marcel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>

Tested-by: Sergei Ianovich <ynvich@xxxxxxxxx>

I've hit the original bug too. This patch fixes the *regression*. It
may be worth adding a note about this.

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Sergei Ianovich <ynvich@xxxxxxxxx>