Re: [PATCH v4] PCI: of: Drop error message on missing of_root node

[Manivannan Sadhasivam]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2025 at 12:21:10PM +0100, Andrea della Porta wrote:
> When CONFIG_PCI_DYNAMIC_OF_NODES is enabled, an error message
> is generated if no 'of_root' node is defined.
> 
> On DT-based systems, this cannot happen as a root DT node is
> always present.
> On ACPI-based systems that declare an empty root DT node (e.g.
> x86 with CONFIG_OF_EARLY_FLATTREE=y), this also won't happen.
> On platforms where ACPI is mutually exclusive to DT (e.g. ARM)
> the error will be caught (and possibly shown) by drivers that
> rely on the root node.
> 
> Drop the error message altogether.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrea della Porta <andrea.porta@xxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Manivannan Sadhasivam <mani@xxxxxxxxxx>

- Mani

> ---
> CHANGES in V4:
> - dropped {} from the single line conditional body
> 
> V3: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251110105415.9584-1-andrea.porta@xxxxxxxx/
> ---
>  drivers/pci/of.c | 4 +---
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/of.c b/drivers/pci/of.c
> index 3579265f1198..c222944eec40 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/of.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/of.c
> @@ -774,10 +774,8 @@ void of_pci_make_host_bridge_node(struct pci_host_bridge *bridge)
>  	}
>  
>  	/* Check if there is a DT root node to attach the created node */
> -	if (!of_root) {
> -		pr_err("of_root node is NULL, cannot create PCI host bridge node\n");
> +	if (!of_root)
>  		return;
> -	}
>  
>  	name = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "pci@%x,%x", pci_domain_nr(bridge->bus),
>  			 bridge->bus->number);
> -- 
> 2.35.3
> 

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