[PATCH v2 2/3] memory: renesas-rpc-if: Fix duplicate device name on multi-instance platforms
From: Prabhakar
Date: Fri Mar 27 2026 - 13:47:56 EST
From: Lad Prabhakar <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On platforms with multiple xSPI instances, the driver fails to probe
additional instances due to duplicate sysfs entries:
[ 86.878242] sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/bus/platform/devices/rpc-if-spi'
This occurs because platform_device_alloc() uses pdev->id for the device
ID, which may be PLATFORM_DEVID_NONE (-1) for multiple instances, causing
all instances to attempt registration with the same name.
Fix this by using PLATFORM_DEVID_AUTO instead, which automatically assigns
unique IDs to each device instance, allowing multiple xSPI controllers to
coexist without naming conflicts.
Signed-off-by: Lad Prabhakar <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
v1->v2:
- Add RB tag from Wolfram for the rpc-if duplicate device name patch.
---
drivers/memory/renesas-rpc-if.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/memory/renesas-rpc-if.c b/drivers/memory/renesas-rpc-if.c
index 0fb568456164..3755956ae906 100644
--- a/drivers/memory/renesas-rpc-if.c
+++ b/drivers/memory/renesas-rpc-if.c
@@ -1034,7 +1034,7 @@ static int rpcif_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
return dev_err_probe(dev, PTR_ERR(rpc->spi_clk),
"cannot get enabled spi clk\n");
- vdev = platform_device_alloc(name, pdev->id);
+ vdev = platform_device_alloc(name, PLATFORM_DEVID_AUTO);
if (!vdev)
return -ENOMEM;
vdev->dev.parent = dev;
--
2.53.0