[RFC PATCH 1/3] devicetree: set bus type same as parent

[Frank Rowand]

From: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

This is a somewhat scary patch since it touches a path that is central to
device creation based on the device tree.  It should not be applied without
careful consideration.

I am not sure if this patch is a good idea, even if it does not break
anything.

An issue with the path of SPMI nodes under /sys/bus/... was reported in
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/23/312.  The symptom is that two different
grandchild nodes of the spmi with the same node-name@unit-address will
result in attempting to create duplicate links at
/sys/bus/platform/devices/unit-address.node-name.  It turns out that the
specific example provided might not be an expected configuration for
current hardware, but the reported trap remains an issue.

The common pattern exposed is a driver probe function calling
of_platform_populate() to create child devices.  As the reporting
email noted, the devices are created with dev.bus set to
platform_bus_type.  Thus all devices created via this pattern will
result in a link in /sys/bus/platform/devices/, with the risk that
a name collision will occur.

This patch reduces the scope of possible name collisions to devices
on the same bus type.  This is still not ideal, because a legal
device tree source file can result in run time errors.  In the case
of SPMI nodes, the collisions will occur in /bus/spmi/devices/.

I have not investigated whether other drivers would be negatively impacted
by this change - there are 26 drivers in tree that call of_platform_populate().

Signed-off-by: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/of/platform.c |    5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: b/drivers/of/platform.c
===================================================================
--- a/drivers/of/platform.c
+++ b/drivers/of/platform.c
@@ -217,7 +217,10 @@ static struct platform_device *of_platfo
 	dev->dev.coherent_dma_mask = DMA_BIT_MASK(32);
 	if (!dev->dev.dma_mask)
 		dev->dev.dma_mask = &dev->dev.coherent_dma_mask;
-	dev->dev.bus = &platform_bus_type;
+	if (parent && parent->bus)
+		dev->dev.bus = parent->bus;
+	else
+		dev->dev.bus = &platform_bus_type;
 	dev->dev.platform_data = platform_data;
 
 	/* We do not fill the DMA ops for platform devices by default.
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