Re: [PATCH] soc: qcom: geni-se: don't fail ACPI probe on a missing SE clock

From: Konrad Dybcio

Date: Tue Oct 13 2026 - 06:55:39 EST


On 9/30/26 1:16 PM, Rahul Pon wrote:
> geni_se_resources_init() tolerates a missing "se" clock for devices with an
> ACPI companion, whose firmware manages the serial-engine clocks, but then
> calls devm_pm_opp_set_clkname() for that same clock unconditionally. It
> fails, so ACPI GENI controllers such as the I2C IDs QCOM0220 and QCOM0411
> no longer probe. Before the OPP call, the error pointer left in se->clk
> would also have reached clk_get_rate().
>
> Treat an absent ACPI SE clock as firmware-owned: store NULL, which the
> clock API accepts as a no-op (clk_get_rate() returns 0, so the I2C driver
> selects its 19.2 MHz timing table), and skip the OPP clock name. DT
> behaviour is unchanged.
>
> Found by code review while bringing up an ACPI-booted Snapdragon X2
> laptop; compile-tested with arm64 defconfig plus ACPI and W=1.
>
> Fixes: 5b8a39dcf909 ("soc: qcom: geni-se: Introduce helper API for resource initialization")
> Assisted-by: LLM
> Signed-off-by: Rahul Pon <theflyingrahul@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---

I think this fits better:

diff --git a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-qcom-geni.c b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-qcom-geni.c
index 5d524d9a7373..70a3bf64ffed 100644
--- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-qcom-geni.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-qcom-geni.c
@@ -1350,6 +1350,12 @@ static const struct geni_i2c_desc geni_i2c = {
.power_off = geni_se_resources_deactivate,
};

+static const struct geni_i2c_desc geni_i2c = {
+ .set_rate = qcom_geni_i2c_conf,
+ .power_on = geni_se_resources_activate,
+ .power_off = geni_se_resources_deactivate,
+};
+
static const struct geni_i2c_desc i2c_master_hub = {
.no_dma_support = true,
.tx_fifo_depth = 16,
@@ -1366,8 +1372,8 @@ static const struct geni_i2c_desc sa8255p_geni_i2c = {

#ifdef CONFIG_ACPI
static const struct acpi_device_id geni_i2c_acpi_match[] = {
- { "QCOM0220", (kernel_ulong_t)&geni_i2c},
- { "QCOM0411", (kernel_ulong_t)&geni_i2c},
+ { "QCOM0220", (kernel_ulong_t)&geni_i2c_acpi},
+ { "QCOM0411", (kernel_ulong_t)&geni_i2c_acpi},
{ }
};
MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(acpi, geni_i2c_acpi_match);

But I'm still a little unsure about how the clk_match logic plays with
lacking a clock.

Konrad