Re: [PATCH 2/2] i2c: Clear client->irq in i2c_device_remove

[Charles Keepax]

On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 12:47:56AM +0300, Yauhen Kharuzhy wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 09:59:58AM +0100, Charles Keepax wrote:
> > The IRQ will be mapped in i2c_device_probe only if client->irq is zero and
> > i2c_device_remove does not clear this. When rebinding an I2C device,
> > whos IRQ provider has also been rebound this means that an IRQ mapping
> > will never be created, causing the I2C device to fail to acquire its
> > IRQ. Fix this issue by clearing client->irq in i2c_device_remove,
> > forcing i2c_device_probe to lookup the mapping again.
> 
> Hi.
> 
> I found  driver i2c/busses/i2c-cht-wc.c which instantiates I2C device
> (battery charger) and passes IRQ to driver not using standard I2C IRQ mapping code.
> So if we reprobe I2C device (by reloading I2C device driver module or by
> manipulations with sysfs), we get invalid IRQ number for client:
> 
>  adap->client_irq = irq_create_mapping(adap->irq_domain, 0);
>  ...
>  irq_set_chip_data(adap->client_irq, adap);
>  irq_set_chip_and_handler(adap->client_irq, &adap->irqchip, handle_simple_irq);
>  ...
>  board_info.irq = adap->client_irq;
>  adap->client = i2c_new_device(&adap->adapter, &board_info);
> 
> 
> adap->client->irq will be reset after device removing here.
> 
> 
> Any advice to fix this? Maybe move initial i2c_client->irq value to new field
> like client->init_irq and copy it to client->irq at probing, for example?
> 

Could you be a little more specific here, are you saying if you
reprobe the battery charger device or if you reprobe the I2C
controller itself?

Apologies but I am having a little difficulty working out the
path through which the IRQ is not reinitialised. As I would have
through the battery chargers probe would have reset up the IRQ
then the core would pick it up again from there.

Thanks,
Charles