Re: [PATCH] mux: mmio: Do not use syscon helper to build regmap

[Nishanth Menon]

On 06:26-20250124, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 02:04:12PM -0600, Nishanth Menon wrote:
> > On 12:20-20250123, Andrew Davis wrote:
> > > The syscon helper device_node_to_regmap() is used to fetch a regmap
> > > registered to a device node. It also currently creates this regmap
> > > if the node did not already have a regmap associated with it. This
> > > should only be used on "syscon" nodes. This driver is not such a
> > > device and instead uses device_node_to_regmap() on its own node as
> > > a hacky way to create a regmap for itself.
> > > 
> > > This will not work going forward and so we should create our regmap
> > > the normal way by defining our regmap_config, fetching our memory
> > > resource, then using the normal regmap_init_mmio() function.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Andrew Davis <afd@xxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > Tested-by: Nishanth Menon <nm@xxxxxx>
> > 
> > Greg, Peter,
> > 
> > This is part of the fixes TI K3 platforms boot issues reported in
> > https://lore.kernel.org/all/b2413460-ec8b-4c77-99b8-4c32b262439a@xxxxxx/
> > on the latest linus master v6.13-5001-gd0d106a2bd21 + linux
> > next-20250123
> > 
> > Total set of patches tested with:
> > https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250119182121.3956546-1-vaishnav.a@xxxxxx/
> > https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250123181726.597144-1-afd@xxxxxx
> > https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250123181913.597304-1-afd@xxxxxx
> > https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250123182059.597491-1-afd@xxxxxx
> > https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250123182234.597665-1-afd@xxxxxx
> > 
> > Could we get this routed to master as fixes asap please to get a sane 6.14?
> 
> Our trees are of course closed right now due to the merge window, you
> know that :)
> 
> So we can take things after -rc1 is out, and route bugfixes for
> 6.14-final and new stuff for 6.15-rc1, like always.  It's hard to see
> that this is just a bugfix, but if it is, it needs a Fixes: tag at the
> very least, right?

Just following up after a bit of discussion on IRC.. (Thanks Rob)

I think getting this patch in current window is less urgent for given
Rob has posted a restoration of behavior[1]. This patch is still
good to be merged based on [2], but probably queued as appropriate.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250124191644.2309790-1-robh@xxxxxxxxxx/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAL_JsqKVydDqmr-gyn1wt=1PO_p1NMze+1D+4qXWxGiGVLV9EA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

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Nishanth Menon
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