Re: [PATCH 0/4] scmi: Bypass set fwnode to address devlink issue

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Fri Dec 27 2024 - 12:06:45 EST


On Wed, Dec 25, 2024 at 9:21 AM Peng Fan (OSS) <peng.fan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Current scmi drivers not work well with devlink. This patchset is a
> retry to address the issue in [1] which was a few months ago.
>
> Current scmi devices are not created from device tree, they are created
> from a scmi_device_id entry of each driver with the protocol matches
> with the fwnode reg value, this means there could be multiple devices created
> for one fwnode, but the fwnode only has one device pointer.
>
> This patchset is to do more checking before setting the device fwnode.
>
> This may looks like hack, but seems no better way to make scmi works
> well with devlink.
>
> [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/arm-scmi/CAGETcx8m48cy-EzP6_uoGN7KWsQw=CfZWQ-hNUzz_7LZ0voG8A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

Please drive any devlink-related patches by Saravana Kannan, he's pretty
much the only person I trust to know how to do devlinks right.

Yours,
Linus Walleij