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    of: property: Don't retry device_link_add() upon failure · 8f88fad3
    Saravana Kannan authored
    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: default avatarSaravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com>
    Tested-by: default avatarNicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzjulienne@suse.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarRob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
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