On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 04:26:46PM -0700, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 02/11/2013 03:19 PM, Grant Likely wrote:
> > of_get_next_available_child() obtains the devtree_lock and then calls
> > of_device_is_available() which also attempts to claim the lock. This is
> > obviously incorrect and causes a deadlock on boot. Fix issue by adding
> > an variant of of_device_is_available() which doesn't obtain the lock.
> 
> This patch forgets to update __of_device_is_available() to call
> __of_get_property() rather than of_get_property() and hence doesn't
> actually solve the problem.

Yes, please. of_get_property() called from __of_device_is_available()
pretty much defeats the purpose of having the non-locked version.

Thierry

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