[PATCH] macintosh: therm_windtunnel: fix regression when instantiating devices

Wolfram Sang wsa at the-dreams.de
Sat Feb 29 04:00:33 AEDT 2020


On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 03:12:29PM +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> Removing attach_adapter from this driver caused a regression for at
> least some machines. Those machines had the sensors described in their
> DT, too, so they didn't need manual creation of the sensor devices. The
> old code worked, though, because manual creation came first. Creation of
> DT devices then failed later and caused error logs, but the sensors
> worked nonetheless because of the manually created devices.
> 
> When removing attach_adaper, manual creation now comes later and loses
> the race. The sensor devices were already registered via DT, yet with
> another binding, so the driver could not be bound to it.
> 
> This fix refactors the code to remove the race and only manually creates
> devices if there are no DT nodes present. Also, the DT binding is updated
> to match both, the DT and manually created devices. Because we don't
> know which device creation will be used at runtime, the code to start
> the kthread is moved to do_probe() which will be called by both methods.
> 
> Fixes: 3e7bed52719d ("macintosh: therm_windtunnel: drop using attach_adapter")
> Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201723
> Reported-by: Erhard Furtner <erhard_f at mailbox.org>
> Tested-by: Erhard Furtner <erhard_f at mailbox.org>
> Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa at the-dreams.de>

Applied to for-current, thanks!

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