On Fri, 14 Nov 2014 17:55:03 +1100
, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <b...@kernel.crashing.org>
wrote:
> We have a historical hack that treats missing ranges properties as the
> equivalent of an empty one. This is needed for ancient PowerMac "bad"
> device-trees, and shouldn't be enabled for any other PowerPC platform,
> otherwise we get some nasty layout of devices in sysfs or even
> duplication when a set of otherwise identically named devices is
> created multiple times under a different parent node with no ranges
> property.
>
> This fix is needed for the PowerNV i2c busses to be exposed properly
> and will fix a number of other embedded cases.
>
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <b...@kernel.crashing.org>
> CC: <sta...@vger.kernel.org>
Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.lik...@linaro.org>
Rob will pick up this patch and send it to Linus in his fixups tree for
v3.18
g.
> ---
>
> V2: Make it less horrendously ugly
>
> V3: use IS_ENABLED()
>
> drivers/of/address.c | 19 ++++++++++++++++---
> 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/of/address.c b/drivers/of/address.c
> index e371825..42e416a 100644
> --- a/drivers/of/address.c
> +++ b/drivers/of/address.c
> @@ -403,6 +403,21 @@ static struct of_bus *of_match_bus(struct device_node
> *np)
> return NULL;
> }
>
> +static int of_empty_ranges_quirk(void)
> +{
> + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PPC)) {
> + /* To save cycles, we cache the result */
> + static int quirk_state = -1;
> +
> + if (quirk_state < 0)
> + quirk_state =
> + of_machine_is_compatible("Power Macintosh") ||
> + of_machine_is_compatible("MacRISC");
> + return quirk_state;
> + }
> + return false;
> +}
> +
> static int of_translate_one(struct device_node *parent, struct of_bus *bus,
> struct of_bus *pbus, __be32 *addr,
> int na, int ns, int pna, const char *rprop)
> @@ -428,12 +443,10 @@ static int of_translate_one(struct device_node *parent,
> struct of_bus *bus,
> * This code is only enabled on powerpc. --gcl
> */
> ranges = of_get_property(parent, rprop, &rlen);
> -#if !defined(CONFIG_PPC)
> - if (ranges == NULL) {
> + if (ranges == NULL && !of_empty_ranges_quirk()) {
> pr_err("OF: no ranges; cannot translate\n");
> return 1;
> }
> -#endif /* !defined(CONFIG_PPC) */
> if (ranges == NULL || rlen == 0) {
> offset = of_read_number(addr, na);
> memset(addr, 0, pna * 4);
>
>
>
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