[PATCH v2] powerpc/pseries: remove returning ENODEV when uevent is triggered

Lidong Zhong lidong.zhong at suse.com
Thu Apr 25 10:47:11 AEST 2024


Hi Michael,

Could you share your opinion about this new patch please?

On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 10:04 AM Lidong Zhong <lidong.zhong at suse.com> wrote:

> We noticed the following nuisance messages during boot process
>
> [    7.120610][ T1060] vio vio: uevent: failed to send synthetic uevent
> [    7.122281][ T1060] vio 4000: uevent: failed to send synthetic uevent
> [    7.122304][ T1060] vio 4001: uevent: failed to send synthetic uevent
> [    7.122324][ T1060] vio 4002: uevent: failedto send synthetic uevent
> [    7.122345][ T1060] vio 4004: uevent: failed to send synthetic uevent
>
> It's caused by either vio_register_device_node() fails to set dev->of_node
> or the missing "compatible" property. To keep align with the definition of
> modalias in modalias_show(), we remove the return of ENODEV in such cases.
> The failure messages can also be suppressed with this change.
>
> v2: keep align the definition of modalias with modalias_show()
> Signed-off-by: Lidong Zhong <lidong.zhong at suse.com>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/vio.c | 8 ++------
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/vio.c
> b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/vio.c
> index 90ff85c879bf..b2babfdbc40b 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/vio.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/vio.c
> @@ -1592,13 +1592,9 @@ static int vio_hotplug(const struct device *dev,
> struct kobj_uevent_env *env)
>         const char *cp;
>
>         dn = dev->of_node;
> -       if (!dn)
> -               return -ENODEV;
> -       cp = of_get_property(dn, "compatible", NULL);
> -       if (!cp)
> -               return -ENODEV;
> +       if (dn && (cp = of_get_property(dn, "compatible", NULL)))
> +               add_uevent_var(env, "MODALIAS=vio:T%sS%s", vio_dev->type,
> cp);
>
> -       add_uevent_var(env, "MODALIAS=vio:T%sS%s", vio_dev->type, cp);
>         return 0;
>  }
>
> --
> 2.35.3
>
>

-- 
Regards,
Lidong Zhong
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