of: property: Don't retry device_link_add() upon failure
authorSaravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com>
Thu, 16 Apr 2020 20:58:38 +0000 (13:58 -0700)
committerRob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Tue, 28 Apr 2020 17:47:47 +0000 (12:47 -0500)
commit8f88fad370bb0884f7f7217dea254b202df44716
tree0009ffe5782b6d83a73122717fe1a973d7a8907f
parenta4a8ced6fbbce1caf0d39ebf8c163162cb69ad01
of: property: Don't retry device_link_add() upon failure

When of_link_to_phandle() was implemented initially, there was no way to
tell if device_link_add() was failing because the supplier device hasn't
been parsed yet, hasn't been added yet, the links were creating a cycle,
etc. Some of these were transient errors that'd go away at a later
point.

However, with the current set of improved checks, if device_link_add()
fails, it'll only be for permanent errors like cycles or out-of-memory
errors.

Also, with the addition of DL_FLAG_SYNC_STATE_ONLY flag [1] to device
links, all the valid dependency cycles due to "proxy" device links
(needed for correctness of sync_state() device callback) will never fail
device_link_add() due to cycles.

So, continuing to retry failing device links (by returning -EAGAIN) is
no longer useful. At worst, it prevents platforms from setting
fw_devlink=on (or better) because it prevents proper boot up. So, let's
not do that anymore.

[1] - https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191028220027.251605-1-saravanak@google.com/
Cc: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzjulienne@suse.de>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com>
Tested-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzjulienne@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
drivers/of/property.c