On Sat, Oct 05, 2024 at 09:33:17PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
Broadcom STB platforms have for historical reasons included both
"arm,scmi-smc" and "arm,scmi" in their SCMI Device Tree node compatible
string.
I assume in the same order.
After the commit cited in the Fixes tag and with a kernel
configuration that enables both the SCMI and the Mailbox transports, we
^^^^^ s/SCMI/SMC ?
would probe the mailbox transport, but fail to complete since we would
not have a mailbox driver available.
I always assumed the node compatible match happens from the more specific
compatible(on the left) to the more generic ones(on the right) from the
compatible property list. Looks like that was a wrong assumption then ?
By keeping the SMC transport objects linked first, we can let the
platform driver, match the compatible string and probe successfully with
no adverse effects on platforms using the mailbox transport.
I don't have strong objection to the patch itself, happy to get it merged.
Just curious if my understanding of the issue is correct. I think Cristian
has more detailed query, so just responding to that will suffice.
Fixes: b53515fa177c ("firmware: arm_scmi: Make MBOX transport a standalone driver")
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Change-Id: I8e348e3e0deabdc5c1d596929d7f9134793f346e
Spurious from internal gerrit repo ?