Re: [PATCH v1 3/3] Revert "Revert "driver core: Set fw_devlink=on by default""

[Saravana Kannan]

On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 1:51 PM Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Saravana,
>
> Adding Sudeep and Christian, Al and Jim.
>
> On 3/2/21 1:11 PM, Saravana Kannan wrote:
> > This reverts commit 3e4c982f1ce75faf5314477b8da296d2d00919df.
> >
> > Since all reported issues due to fw_devlink=on should be addressed by
> > this series, revert the revert. fw_devlink=on Take II.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> This change breaks booting on SCMI-based platforms such as ARCH_BRCMSTB.
> If I revert this change or boot with fw_devlink=permissive, then our
> systems boot again. From a quick look, the SCMI clock provider was never
> probed which means that our UART driver never got a chance to get its
> clock and we have no console -> timeout.

We explicitly landed changes to handle this condition. So we'll see if
this is what is happening.

> Al, AFAICT you had started to analyze this before in the context of
> SCMI, do you mind sharing what you had found?
>
> Saravana, is there any debugging output that we can help provide?

Thanks for the report. Couple of things that can help:
1. Example DTS file (the final board file so that I can get the full DT view).
2. Point out the UART device node and the SCMI device node that you
suspect is causing the issue.
3. Boot logs with dev_dbg changed to dev_info in device_link_add() and
device_links_check_suppliers()

Thanks,
Saravana