[PATCH v6 3/6] drm/xe/i2c: use device_create_managed_software_node()

From: Bartosz Golaszewski

Date: Wed May 13 2026 - 11:07:11 EST


This driver intentionally uses the fine-grained approach to creating
platform devices. It assigns a software node as the primary firmware
node of the device it creates. Ahead of improving the reference counting
of platform device software nodes, switch to using
device_create_managed_software_node(). This way, we create a dynamic
software node whose life-time is tied to the device to which it's
assigned.

Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_i2c.c | 22 ++++++++--------------
drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_i2c.h | 1 -
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_i2c.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_i2c.c
index 706783863d07d66b4685005d6649b3cd143ecc3b..5b0026bdb1c609bac12cfa1453c685846f3b731b 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_i2c.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_i2c.c
@@ -93,13 +93,8 @@ static int xe_i2c_register_adapter(struct xe_i2c *i2c)
{
struct pci_dev *pci = to_pci_dev(i2c->drm_dev);
struct platform_device *pdev;
- struct fwnode_handle *fwnode;
int ret;

- fwnode = fwnode_create_software_node(xe_i2c_adapter_properties, NULL);
- if (IS_ERR(fwnode))
- return PTR_ERR(fwnode);
-
/*
* Not using platform_device_register_full() here because we don't have
* a handle to the platform_device before it returns. xe_i2c_notifier()
@@ -107,10 +102,14 @@ static int xe_i2c_register_adapter(struct xe_i2c *i2c)
* platform_device_register_full() is done.
*/
pdev = platform_device_alloc(adapter_name, pci_dev_id(pci));
- if (!pdev) {
- ret = -ENOMEM;
- goto err_fwnode_remove;
- }
+ if (!pdev)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
+ ret = device_create_managed_software_node(&pdev->dev,
+ xe_i2c_adapter_properties,
+ NULL);
+ if (ret)
+ goto err_pdev_put;

if (i2c->adapter_irq) {
struct resource res;
@@ -123,8 +122,6 @@ static int xe_i2c_register_adapter(struct xe_i2c *i2c)
}

pdev->dev.parent = i2c->drm_dev;
- pdev->dev.fwnode = fwnode;
- i2c->adapter_node = fwnode;
i2c->pdev = pdev;

ret = platform_device_add(pdev);
@@ -135,8 +132,6 @@ static int xe_i2c_register_adapter(struct xe_i2c *i2c)

err_pdev_put:
platform_device_put(pdev);
-err_fwnode_remove:
- fwnode_remove_software_node(fwnode);

return ret;
}
@@ -144,7 +139,6 @@ static int xe_i2c_register_adapter(struct xe_i2c *i2c)
static void xe_i2c_unregister_adapter(struct xe_i2c *i2c)
{
platform_device_unregister(i2c->pdev);
- fwnode_remove_software_node(i2c->adapter_node);
}

/**
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_i2c.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_i2c.h
index 425d8160835f4648891ff75f2a9c06284241710e..b28229f056c5a664e1d41dc0cc1978782fe1c2f1 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_i2c.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_i2c.h
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ struct xe_i2c_endpoint {
};

struct xe_i2c {
- struct fwnode_handle *adapter_node;
struct platform_device *pdev;
struct i2c_adapter *adapter;
struct i2c_client *client[XE_I2C_MAX_CLIENTS];

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2.47.3