From 8f88fad370bb0884f7f7217dea254b202df44716 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Saravana Kannan Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2020 13:58:38 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] of: property: Don't retry device_link_add() upon failure When of_link_to_phandle() was implemented initially, there was no way to tell if device_link_add() was failing because the supplier device hasn't been parsed yet, hasn't been added yet, the links were creating a cycle, etc. Some of these were transient errors that'd go away at a later point. However, with the current set of improved checks, if device_link_add() fails, it'll only be for permanent errors like cycles or out-of-memory errors. Also, with the addition of DL_FLAG_SYNC_STATE_ONLY flag [1] to device links, all the valid dependency cycles due to "proxy" device links (needed for correctness of sync_state() device callback) will never fail device_link_add() due to cycles. So, continuing to retry failing device links (by returning -EAGAIN) is no longer useful. At worst, it prevents platforms from setting fw_devlink=on (or better) because it prevents proper boot up. So, let's not do that anymore. [1] - https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191028220027.251605-1-saravanak@google.com/ Cc: Nicolas Saenz Julienne Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan Tested-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne Signed-off-by: Rob Herring --- drivers/of/property.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/of/property.c b/drivers/of/property.c index 252e4f6..ee1bc26 100644 --- a/drivers/of/property.c +++ b/drivers/of/property.c @@ -1074,7 +1074,7 @@ static int of_link_to_phandle(struct device *dev, struct device_node *sup_np, return -EAGAIN; } if (!device_link_add(dev, sup_dev, dl_flags)) - ret = -EAGAIN; + ret = -EINVAL; put_device(sup_dev); return ret; } -- 2.7.4