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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] platform/chrome: i2c: i2c-cros-ec-tunnel: Convert i2c
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To:     Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>,
        Raul E Rangel <rrangel@chromium.org>
Cc:     Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>, Akshu.Agrawal@amd.com,
        Guenter Roeck <groeck@chromium.org>,
        Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@samsung.com>,
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        Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>,
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From:   Enric Balletbo i Serra <enric.balletbo@collabora.com>
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Date:   Mon, 9 Dec 2019 15:41:33 +0100
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Hi Lee,

On 9/12/19 14:17, Lee Jones wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Nov 2019, Raul E Rangel wrote:
> 
>> If the i2c-cros-ec-tunnel driver is compiled into the kernel, it is
>> possible that i2c-cros-ec-tunnel could be probed before cros_ec_XXX
>> has finished initializing and setting the drvdata. This would cause a
>> NULL pointer panic.
>>
>> Converting this driver over to an MFD solves the problem and aligns with
>> where the cros_ec is going.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Raul E Rangel <rrangel@chromium.org>
>> ---
>> You can now see the device node lives under the mfd device.
>>
>> $ find /sys/bus/platform/devices/cros-ec-dev.0.auto/cros-ec-i2c-tunnel.12.auto/ -iname firmware_node -exec ls -l '{}' \;
>> /sys/bus/platform/devices/cros-ec-dev.0.auto/cros-ec-i2c-tunnel.12.auto/firmware_node -> ../../../../../../LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0A08:00/device:1c/PNP0C09:00/GOOG0004:00/GOOG0012:00
>> /sys/bus/platform/devices/cros-ec-dev.0.auto/cros-ec-i2c-tunnel.12.auto/i2c-9/firmware_node -> ../../../../../../../LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0A08:00/device:1c/PNP0C09:00/GOOG0004:00/GOOG0012:00
>> /sys/bus/platform/devices/cros-ec-dev.0.auto/cros-ec-i2c-tunnel.12.auto/i2c-9/i2c-10EC5682:00/firmware_node -> ../../../../../../../../LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0A08:00/device:1c/PNP0C09:00/GOOG0004:00/GOOG0012:00/10EC5682:00
>>
>>  drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-cros-ec-tunnel.c | 36 +++++++++----------------
>>  drivers/mfd/cros_ec_dev.c               | 19 +++++++++++++
> 
> For my own reference:
>   Acked-for-MFD-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
> 

Note that there is a v2 for this patch and I did some comments [1]

Thanks,
 Enric

[1] https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1200560/