Stefan Wahren reports a problem with a warning fix that was merged for v4.15: we had lots of device nodes with a 'phys' property pointing to a device node that is not compliant with the binding documented in Documentation/devicetree/bindings/phy/phy-bindings.txt
This generally works because USB HCD drivers that support both the generic phy subsystem and the older usb-phy subsystem ignore most errors from phy_get() and related calls and then use the usb-phy driver instead.
However, usb_add_hcd() (along with the respective functions in dwc2 and dwc3) propagate the EPROBE_DEFER return code so we can try again whenever the driver gets loaded. In case the driver is written for the usb-phy subsystem (like usb-generic-phy aka usb-nop-xceiv), we will never load a generic-phy driver for it, and keep failing here.
There is only a small number of remaining usb-phy drivers that support device tree, so this adds a workaround by providing a full list of the potentially affected drivers, and always failing the probe with -ENODEV here, which is the same behavior that we used to get with incorrect device tree files. Since we generally want older kernels to also want to work with the fixed devicetree files, it would be good to backport the patch into stable kernels as well (3.13+ are possibly affected). Reverting back to the DTS sources that work would in theory fix USB support for now, but in the long run we'd run into the same problem again when the drivers get ported from usb-phy to generic-phy.
Fixes: 014d6da6cb25 ("ARM: dts: bcm283x: Fix DTC warnings about missing phy-cells") Link: https://marc.info/?l=linux-usb&m=151518314314753&w=2 Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Stefan Wahren stefan.wahren@i2se.com Cc: Felipe Balbi balbi@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de --- This obviously needs to be tested, I wrote this up as a reply to Stefan's bug report. I'm fairly sure that I covered all usb-phy driver strings here. My goal is to have a fix merged into 4.15 rather than reverting all the DT fixes. --- drivers/phy/phy-core.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/phy/phy-core.c b/drivers/phy/phy-core.c index b4964b067aec..bb4dd2a2de2d 100644 --- a/drivers/phy/phy-core.c +++ b/drivers/phy/phy-core.c @@ -387,6 +387,24 @@ int phy_calibrate(struct phy *phy) } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(phy_calibrate);
+static struct of_device_id __maybe_unused legacy_usbphy[] = { + { .compatible = "fsl,imx23-usbphy" }, + { .compatible = "fsl,imx6q-usbphy" }, + { .compatible = "fsl,imx6sl-usbphy" }, + { .compatible = "fsl,imx6sx-usbphy" }, + { .compatible = "fsl,imx6ul-usbphy" }, + { .compatible = "fsl,vf610-usbphy" }, + { .compatible = "nvidia,tegra20-usb-phy" }, + { .compatible = "nvidia,tegra30-usb-phy" }, + { .compatible = "nxp,isp1301" }, + { .compatible = "ti,am335x-usb-ctrl-module" }, + { .compatible = "ti,am335x-usb-phy" }, + { .compatible = "ti,keystone-usbphy" }, + { .compatible = "ti,twl6030-usb" }, + { .compatible = "usb-nop-xceiv" }, + {}, +}; + /** * _of_phy_get() - lookup and obtain a reference to a phy by phandle * @np: device_node for which to get the phy @@ -410,6 +428,15 @@ static struct phy *_of_phy_get(struct device_node *np, int index) if (ret) return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
+ /* + * Some USB host controllers use a "phys" property to refer to + * a device that does not have a generic phy driver but that + * has a driver for the older usb-phy framework. + * We must not return -EPROBE_DEFER for those, so bail out early. + */ + if (of_match_node(legacy_usbphy, args.np)) + return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV); + mutex_lock(&phy_provider_mutex); phy_provider = of_phy_provider_lookup(args.np); if (IS_ERR(phy_provider) || !try_module_get(phy_provider->owner)) {