Re: [PATCH 2/4] i3c: master: Check if devices have i3c_dev_boardinfo on i3c_master_add_i3c_dev_locked()

[Boris Brezillon]

On Thu, 29 Aug 2019 16:39:18 +0200
Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, 29 Aug 2019 14:00:44 +0000
> Vitor Soares <Vitor.Soares@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Boris,
> > 
> > From: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 11:44:57
> >   
> > > On Thu, 29 Aug 2019 12:19:33 +0200
> > > Vitor Soares <Vitor.Soares@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >     
> > > > The I3C devices described in DT might not be attached to the master which
> > > > doesn't allow to assign a specific dynamic address.    
> > > 
> > > I remember testing this when developing the framework, so, unless
> > > another patch regressed it, it should already work. I suspect patch 1
> > > is actually the regressing this use case.    
> > 
> > For today it doesn't address the case where the device is described with 
> > static address = 0, which isn't attached to the controller.  
> 
> Hm, I'm pretty sure I had designed the code to support that case (see
> [1]). It might be buggy, but nothing we can't fix I guess.
> 

[1]https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.3-rc6/source/drivers/i3c/master.c#L1898