Re: [PATCH v2 00/16] intel-lpss: support non-ACPI platforms

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Tuesday, January 05, 2016 09:57:35 AM Laura Abbott wrote:
> On 12/06/2015 05:44 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Monday, November 30, 2015 05:11:28 PM Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> >> This series includes few logical sets that bring a support of non-ACPI
> >> platforms for Intel Skylake.
> >>
> >> First part is a refactoring of built-in device properties support:
> >> - keep single value inside the structure
> >> - provide helper macros to define built-in properties
> >> - fall back to secondary fwnode if primary has no asked property
> >>
> >> Second is a propagating built-in device properties in platform core.
> >>
> >> Third one is modifications to MFD code and intel-lpss.c driver in particular
> >> to define and pass built-in properties to the individual drivers.
> >>
> >> And last part is a fix for I2C bug found on Lenovo Yoga hardware and a first
> >> converted user.
> >>
> >> Built-in device properties is an alternative to platform data. It provides a
> >> unified API that drivers can use to cover all cases at once: DT, ACPI, and
> >> built-in properties.
> >>
> >> With this series applied a platform data can be considered obsolete. Moreover,
> >> built-in device properties allow to adjust the existing configuration, for
> >> example, in cases when ACPI values are wrong on some platforms.
> >>
> >> The series has been tested on available hardware and doesn't break current
> >> behaviour. But we ask people who have the affected hardware to apply the series
> >> on your side and check with Lenovo hardware.
> >>
> >> Changelog v2:
> >> - fix isuues found by kbuild bot (kbuild)
> >> - append a patch to propagate device properties in polatform code (Arnd)
> >> - update few existing and add couple of new patches due to above
> >> - check with kmemleak
> >>
> >> Andy Shevchenko (9):
> >>    device property: always check for fwnode type
> >>    device property: rename helper functions
> >>    device property: refactor built-in properties support
> >>    device property: keep single value inplace
> >>    device property: improve readability of macros
> >>    device property: return -EINVAL when property isn't found in ACPI
> >>    device property: Fallback to secondary fwnode if primary misses the
> >>      property
> >>    mfd: core: propagate device properties to sub devices drivers
> >>    mfd: intel-lpss: Pass HSUART configuration via properties
> >>
> >> Heikki Krogerus (1):
> >>    device property: helper macros for property entry creation
> >>
> >> Mika Westerberg (6):
> >>    device property: Take a copy of the property set
> >>    driver core: platform: Add support for built-in device properties
> >>    driver core: Do not overwrite secondary fwnode with NULL if it is set
> >>    mfd: intel-lpss: Add support for passing device properties
> >>    mfd: intel-lpss: Pass SDA hold time to I2C host controller driver
> >>    i2c: designware: Convert to use unified device property API
> >
> > I'm going to queue up this series for v4.5.
> >
> > If there are any problems with it or objections from anyone, please let me know.
> >
> 
> 
> Raising an old thread, I pulled this series into Fedora rawhide and
> while it worked for Lenovo Yoga we received a report that it caused
> a regression on the Dell Inspiron 7559 (see
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1275718#c27) . I haven't
> asked the reporter about bisecting to see which patch broke it.
> Were there any known follow up patches?

There were a few.

All of them are in my linux-next branch if you can try this one.

Alternatively, I can expose a branch with these to you to test.

Thanks,
Rafael

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