Re: [PATCH] PCI: dwc: layerscape: convert to builtin_platform_driver()

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Saravana,

On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 1:05 AM Saravana Kannan <saravanak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 3:53 PM Michael Walle <michael@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Am 2021-01-20 20:47, schrieb Saravana Kannan:
> > > On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 11:28 AM Michael Walle <michael@xxxxxxxx>
> > > wrote:
> > >>
> > >> [RESEND, fat-fingered the buttons of my mail client and converted
> > >> all CCs to BCCs :(]
> > >>
> > >> Am 2021-01-20 20:02, schrieb Saravana Kannan:
> > >> > On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 6:24 AM Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >> >>
> > >> >> On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 4:53 AM Michael Walle <michael@xxxxxxxx>
> > >> >> wrote:
> > >> >> >
> > >> >> > fw_devlink will defer the probe until all suppliers are ready. We can't
> > >> >> > use builtin_platform_driver_probe() because it doesn't retry after probe
> > >> >> > deferral. Convert it to builtin_platform_driver().
> > >> >>
> > >> >> If builtin_platform_driver_probe() doesn't work with fw_devlink, then
> > >> >> shouldn't it be fixed or removed?
> > >> >
> > >> > I was actually thinking about this too. The problem with fixing
> > >> > builtin_platform_driver_probe() to behave like
> > >> > builtin_platform_driver() is that these probe functions could be
> > >> > marked with __init. But there are also only 20 instances of
> > >> > builtin_platform_driver_probe() in the kernel:
> > >> > $ git grep ^builtin_platform_driver_probe | wc -l
> > >> > 20
> > >> >
> > >> > So it might be easier to just fix them to not use
> > >> > builtin_platform_driver_probe().
> > >> >
> > >> > Michael,
> > >> >
> > >> > Any chance you'd be willing to help me by converting all these to
> > >> > builtin_platform_driver() and delete builtin_platform_driver_probe()?
> > >>
> > >> If it just moving the probe function to the _driver struct and
> > >> remove the __init annotations. I could look into that.
> > >
> > > Yup. That's pretty much it AFAICT.
> > >
> > > builtin_platform_driver_probe() also makes sure the driver doesn't ask
> > > for async probe, etc. But I doubt anyone is actually setting async
> > > flags and still using builtin_platform_driver_probe().
> >
> > Hasn't module_platform_driver_probe() the same problem? And there
> > are ~80 drivers which uses that.
>
> Yeah. The biggest problem with all of these is the __init markers.
> Maybe some familiar with coccinelle can help?

And dropping them will increase memory usage.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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