driver core: Set fw_devlink to "permissive" behavior by default
authorSaravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com>
Sat, 21 Mar 2020 21:03:05 +0000 (14:03 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 24 Mar 2020 12:53:34 +0000 (13:53 +0100)
commitc442a0d18744d4a5857d513f171d68ed6a54df5b
tree7bed74f2501d6500596375a2753be1fe1dd80c0a
parenta3a87d66d3f64c74acbc25799d38effb63695ea0
driver core: Set fw_devlink to "permissive" behavior by default

Set fw_devlink to "permissive" behavior by default so that device links
are automatically created (with DL_FLAG_SYNC_STATE_ONLY) by scanning the
firmware.

This ensures suppliers get their sync_state() calls only after all their
consumers have probed successfully. Without this, suppliers will get
their sync_state() calls at late_initcall_sync() even if their consuer

Ideally, we'd want to set fw_devlink to "on" or "rpm" by default. But
that needs more testing as it's known to break some corner case
drivers/platforms.

Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>
Cc: Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com>
Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200321210305.28937-1-saravanak@google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/base/core.c