[U-Boot] [PATCH] pci: Support parsing PCI controller DT subnodes

[Marek Vasut]

On 08/22/2018 08:08 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
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>> This is explained in the patch description and the thread again. Please
>> read the thread before replying. Take a look at the r8a7794.dtsi and its
>> PCI bindings, there are PCI controller subnodes which add extra
>> information for PCI devices on the bus. These nodes do not have a
>> compatible string, only a BFD.
>>
>> This is perfectly valid, since you can match a driver on the PCI IDs or
>> classes (PCI_DEVICE()), but the driver doesn't have a DT node associated
>> with it. If there is a DT node with a matching BFD, it is associated
>> with the driver instance by this patch.
>>
>> This allows ie. the EHCI PCI driver to access that DT node and extract
>> information about PHYs from the DT (in case of the r8a7794).
> 
> But the code to do this already exists in pci_bind_bus_devices().
> 
> I know I am late to this thread but no one is going to read 45 messages, sorry.

But then what is the point of having ML discussions archived at all if I
have to explain the same thing over and over to everyone who comes into
the thread ?

> Why is pci_bus_find_devfn() failing?

Because this function is a hack to force-bind drivers to PCI devices
which are described in the DT with a compatible string. This does not
apply to this case.

If this function fails (correctly, no force-binding needs to happen
because there is no compatible string, we want to match on PCI IDs),
the code will continue and match on PCI ID/class with
pci_find_and_bind_driver() . That function is where we need to verify if
there isn't a PCI controller subnode in DT with a matching BFD which
should be associated with the new driver instance.

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Best regards,
Marek Vasut