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

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon May 10 2021 - 10:32:00 EST


On Wed, May 05, 2021 at 07:01:04PM -0700, John Stultz wrote:
> 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

Now queued up, thanks.

greg k-h