Re: [PATCH] of: property: Disable fw_devlink DT support for X86

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Fri Sep 10 2021 - 07:15:27 EST


On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 12:37:01PM +0200, Andre Muller wrote:
> On 10/09/2021 08.15, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 09, 2021 at 06:14:45PM -0700, Saravana Kannan wrote:
> > > Andre reported fw_devlink=on breaking OLPC XO-1.5 [1].
> > >
> > > OLPC XO-1.5 is an X86 system that uses a mix of ACPI and OF to populate
> > > devices. The root cause seems to be ISA devices not setting their fwnode
> > > field. But trying to figure out how to fix that doesn't seem worth the
> > > trouble because the OLPC devicetree is very sparse/limited and fw_devlink
> > > only adds the links causing this issue. Considering that there aren't many
> > > users of OF in an X86 system, simply fw_devlink DT support for X86.
> > >
> > > [1] - https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/3c1f2473-92ad-bfc4-258e-a5a08ad73dd0@xxxxxx/
> > > Fixes: ea718c699055 ("Revert "Revert "driver core: Set fw_devlink=on by default""")
> > > Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Andre Muller <andre.muller@xxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > drivers/of/property.c | 3 +++
> > > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/of/property.c b/drivers/of/property.c
> > > index 0c0dc2e369c0..3fd74bb34819 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/of/property.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/of/property.c
> > > @@ -1444,6 +1444,9 @@ static int of_fwnode_add_links(struct fwnode_handle *fwnode)
> > > struct property *p;
> > > struct device_node *con_np = to_of_node(fwnode);
> > >
> > > + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_X86))
> > > + return 0;
> >
> > I love it :)
> >
> > Anyway, getting a "Tested-by:" would be great to have here. Andre, can
> > you verify this solves your issue?
>
> Yes, this patch fixes the issue, the drives work fine.
> Tested-by: Andre Müller <andre.muller@xxxxxx>

Wonderful!

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Or Rob, want me to take this through my tree?

thanks,

greg k-h