U-CLASS SPI Bus and Devices

[Rudolf J Streif]

I ran into an issue today with a U-CLASS SPI NOR flash device on a NXP
FlexSPI controller. U-Boot started correctly from the flash device but
using 'sf probe 0:0' would always return 'Invalid bus 0 (err=-19)'. This
error message is emitted by spi_get_bus_and_cs() in
drivers/spi/spi-uclass.c. I traced the issue to
uclass_get_device_by_seq() in drivers/core/uclass.c.

The function first searches the device list for a device that already
claimed the sequence number (dev->seq). If not found it would look if a
device requested that sequence number (dev->seq_req). That would always
fail for my device. The bus had not been probed yet and hence dev->seq
was -1 and the device also had dev->req_seq set to -1.

The board is using a device tree hence it would only make sense to set
the requested sequence number via the device tree. However, there is no
such thing and even if there was it might not be specified.

Consequently, the device was never probed although the driver was
correctly set up via device tree.

I worked around it by simply setting dev->req_seq of the first device
that had it set to -1 to the sequence number the search function was
looking for (see patch below). It solved my problem but I don't know if
that is the right way of addressing it. I could not find any other
solution for this particular problem anywhere.

Rudi



From 0f05ab964fcc7d29d8d467e663d7daa72328cf66 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rudolf J Streif <rudolf.streif at ibeeto.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2020 17:13:07 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Fix issue with SPI device sequence number

If the requested sequence number for a SPI device was -1 (any)
then the device would never be probed. This fix simply assigns
the sequence number asked for at probing to the device if it has
not been probed yet and the requested sequence number is -1.

Signed-off-by: Rudolf J Streif <rudolf.streif at ibeeto.com>
---
 drivers/core/uclass.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/core/uclass.c b/drivers/core/uclass.c
index fc3157de39..e791103153 100644
--- a/drivers/core/uclass.c
+++ b/drivers/core/uclass.c
@@ -310,6 +310,8 @@ int uclass_find_device_by_seq(enum uclass_id id, int
seq_or_req_seq,

        uclass_foreach_dev(dev, uc) {
                debug("   - %d %d '%s'\n", dev->req_seq, dev->seq,
dev->name);
+               if (find_req_seq && dev->req_seq == -1)
+                       dev->req_seq = seq_or_req_seq;
                if ((find_req_seq ? dev->req_seq : dev->seq) ==
                                seq_or_req_seq) {
                        *devp = dev;
-- 
2.23.0



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