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driver core: fw_devlink: Allow firmware to mark devices as best effort
authorSaravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com>
Thu, 23 Jun 2022 08:03:42 +0000 (01:03 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 27 Jun 2022 14:52:25 +0000 (16:52 +0200)
commit8bd84dcc0415a1ad69d07ef6096785be94d59b37
tree4c1382c0cc1df78c1fdd1775f29b0eaaa5ab93f1
parent15295466ebb509fe09eb247fb59e671a0e8c606f
driver core: fw_devlink: Allow firmware to mark devices as best effort

When firmware sets the FWNODE_FLAG_BEST_EFFORT flag for a fwnode,
fw_devlink will do a best effort ordering for that device where it'll
only enforce the probe/suspend/resume ordering of that device with
suppliers that have drivers. The driver of that device can then decide
if it wants to defer probe or probe without the suppliers.

This will be useful for avoid probe delays of the console device that
were caused by commit 6a649ad15f44 ("driver core: Set
fw_devlink.strict=1 by default").

Fixes: 6a649ad15f44 ("driver core: Set fw_devlink.strict=1 by default")
Reported-by: Sascha Hauer <sha@pengutronix.de>
Reported-by: Peng Fan <peng.fan@nxp.com>
Tested-by: Peng Fan <peng.fan@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220623080344.783549-2-saravanak@google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/base/core.c
include/linux/fwnode.h