On Tue, 18 Feb 2014 12:22:05 -0800, Greg KH <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 10:57:09AM +0100, Jean-Jacques Hiblot wrote: > > The goal of this patch is to allow drivers to be probed even if at the time > > of > > the DT parsing some of their ressources are not available yet. > > > > In the current situation, the resource of a platform device are filled from > > the > > DT at the time the device is created (of_device_alloc()). The drawbackof > > this > > is that a device sitting close to the top of the DT (ahb for example) but > > depending on ressources that are initialized later (IRQ domain dynamically > > created for example) will fail to probe because the ressources don't exist > > at this time. > > > > This patch fills the resource structure only before the device is probed and > > will defer the probe if the resource are not available yet. > > > > Signed-off-by: Jean-Jacques Hiblot <jjhib...@traphandler.com> > > Reviewed-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clem...@free-electrons.com> > > --- > > drivers/base/platform.c | 6 ++++ > > drivers/of/platform.c | 71 > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------- > > include/linux/of_platform.h | 10 +++++++ > > 3 files changed, 62 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-) > > I need some others to ack this before I can take it...
Yes, please let me review it first, and I'll probably want to take it through the devicetree branch. g. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
