Re: [PATCH v1] usb: typec: tcpm: Don't block probing of consumers of "connector" nodes

From: John Stultz
Date: Wed May 05 2021 - 22:01:22 EST


On Wed, May 5, 2021 at 5:44 PM Saravana Kannan <saravanak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> fw_devlink expects DT device nodes with "compatible" property to have
> struct devices created for them. Since the connector node might not be
> populated as a device, mark it as such so that fw_devlink knows not to
> wait on this fwnode being populated as a struct device.
>
> Without this patch, USB functionality can be broken on some boards.
>
> Fixes: f7514a663016 ("of: property: fw_devlink: Add support for remote-endpoint")
> Reported-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@xxxxxxxxxx>

Tested-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks so much for this fix! HiKey960 is back to booting properly!
-john