[PATCH 3/4] gpio: virtuser: stop using dev-sync-probe

From: Bartosz Golaszewski

Date: Fri Mar 27 2026 - 06:47:35 EST


dev-err-probe is an overengineered solution to a simple problem. Use a
combination of wait_for_probe() and device_is_bound() to synchronously
wait for the platform device to probe.

Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpio/Kconfig | 1 -
drivers/gpio/gpio-virtuser.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++----------
2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpio/Kconfig b/drivers/gpio/Kconfig
index 09db777938f3723e5dbd895dd1b30d39a21a2da1..56a7ddaa95eac07ee4f7b755335595805a316319 100644
--- a/drivers/gpio/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/gpio/Kconfig
@@ -2072,7 +2072,6 @@ config GPIO_VIRTUSER
select DEBUG_FS
select CONFIGFS_FS
select IRQ_WORK
- select DEV_SYNC_PROBE
help
Say Y here to enable the configurable, configfs-based virtual GPIO
consumer testing driver.
diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpio-virtuser.c b/drivers/gpio/gpio-virtuser.c
index 955b5efc283ef565f8c1cfcaccd6d653f2f78f19..fe0eac920ced323926b2bc83ca0a2eb5f85c2154 100644
--- a/drivers/gpio/gpio-virtuser.c
+++ b/drivers/gpio/gpio-virtuser.c
@@ -36,8 +36,6 @@
#include <linux/string_helpers.h>
#include <linux/types.h>

-#include "dev-sync-probe.h"
-
#define GPIO_VIRTUSER_NAME_BUF_LEN 32

static DEFINE_IDA(gpio_virtuser_ida);
@@ -978,7 +976,7 @@ static struct platform_driver gpio_virtuser_driver = {
};

struct gpio_virtuser_device {
- struct dev_sync_probe_data probe_data;
+ struct platform_device *pdev;
struct config_group group;

int id;
@@ -1002,7 +1000,7 @@ gpio_virtuser_device_is_live(struct gpio_virtuser_device *dev)
{
lockdep_assert_held(&dev->lock);

- return !!dev->probe_data.pdev;
+ return !!dev->pdev;
}

struct gpio_virtuser_lookup {
@@ -1342,7 +1340,7 @@ gpio_virtuser_device_config_dev_name_show(struct config_item *item,

guard(mutex)(&dev->lock);

- pdev = dev->probe_data.pdev;
+ pdev = dev->pdev;
if (pdev)
return sprintf(page, "%s\n", dev_name(&pdev->dev));

@@ -1450,6 +1448,7 @@ static int
gpio_virtuser_device_activate(struct gpio_virtuser_device *dev)
{
struct platform_device_info pdevinfo;
+ struct platform_device *pdev;
struct fwnode_handle *swnode;
int ret;

@@ -1471,12 +1470,23 @@ gpio_virtuser_device_activate(struct gpio_virtuser_device *dev)
if (ret)
goto err_remove_swnode;

- ret = dev_sync_probe_register(&dev->probe_data, &pdevinfo);
- if (ret)
+ pdev = platform_device_register_full(&pdevinfo);
+ if (IS_ERR(pdev)) {
+ ret = PTR_ERR(pdev);
goto err_remove_lookup_table;
+ }
+
+ wait_for_device_probe();
+ if (!device_is_bound(&pdev->dev)) {
+ ret = -ENXIO;
+ goto err_unregister_pdev;
+ }

+ dev->pdev = pdev;
return 0;

+err_unregister_pdev:
+ platform_device_unregister(pdev);
err_remove_lookup_table:
gpio_virtuser_remove_lookup_table(dev);
err_remove_swnode:
@@ -1492,8 +1502,9 @@ gpio_virtuser_device_deactivate(struct gpio_virtuser_device *dev)

lockdep_assert_held(&dev->lock);

- swnode = dev_fwnode(&dev->probe_data.pdev->dev);
- dev_sync_probe_unregister(&dev->probe_data);
+ swnode = dev_fwnode(&dev->pdev->dev);
+ platform_device_unregister(dev->pdev);
+ dev->pdev = NULL;
gpio_virtuser_remove_lookup_table(dev);
fwnode_remove_software_node(swnode);
}
@@ -1723,7 +1734,6 @@ gpio_virtuser_config_make_device_group(struct config_group *group,
&gpio_virtuser_device_config_group_type);
mutex_init(&dev->lock);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dev->lookup_list);
- dev_sync_probe_init(&dev->probe_data);

return &no_free_ptr(dev)->group;
}

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