Re: [PATCH -next 1/2] i2c: designware: Switch from using MMIO access to SMN access

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 9/22/22 11:51, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> +Cc: Hans (mentioned your name and was under impression that you are in Cc list already)
> 
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 12:49:15PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 10:50:53PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>>> On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 03:19:26PM -0500, Limonciello, Mario wrote:
>>>> Jan mentioned this in the commit message:
>>>>
>>>>> The function which registers i2c-designware-platdrv is a
>>>>> subsys_initcall that is executed before fs_initcall (when enumeration > of
>>>> NB descriptors occurs).
>>>>
>>>> So if it's not exported again, then it means that we somehow
>>>> need to get i2c-designware-platdrv to register earlier too.
>>>
>>> So I have this there:
>>>
>>> /* This has to go after the PCI subsystem */
>>> fs_initcall(init_amd_nbs);
>>>
>>> as I need PCI. It itself does
>>>
>>> arch_initcall(pci_arch_init);
>>>
>>> so I guess init_amd_nbs() could be a subsys_initcall...
>>>
>>> Or why is
>>>
>>> subsys_initcall(dw_i2c_init_driver);
>>>
>>> a subsys initcall in the first place?
>>>
>>> Looking at
>>>
>>>   104522806a7d ("i2c: designware: dw_i2c_init_driver as subsys initcall")
>>>
>>> I don't see a particular reason why it should be a subsys_initcall...
>>>
>>> In any case, this should be fixed without an export which was crap in
>>> the first place.
>>>
>>> Hm.
>>
>> I'm speculating here, but IIRC the I2C controllers may serve PMICs on some
>> platform that are required to be present earlier due to some ACPI code
>> accessing them. This Hans de Goede can confirm or correct me.

Right, thank you for Cc-ing me. At least on X86 there are several platforms
(and 100-s of device models) which use a PMIC connected to the i2c-designware
controller and this PMIC gets poked directly from ACPI _S0 and _S3
(power on/off) methods. So the I2C bus driver needs to *bind* to the controller
as soon as we find its description in ACPI, otherwise we get a whole bunch
of failed ACPI OpRegion access errors as well as various actual really issues.

So please keep this as a subsys initcall.

Regards,

Hans