I think that is definitely a solution. It does centralize the testing for this particular issue. The only thing question I have is if its really better to have the upper level do the check. Shouldn't the driver itself handle the hardware and device node status?
On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 15:07 -0800, Hollis Blanchard wrote: > Right now, a number of drivers honor the "status" property on device > nodes (via of_device_is_available() checks), but it's open-coded in each > driver. I'm thinking of "hiding" arbitrary devices from the kernel, and > setting this property seems like the best approach, but at the moment > that would require modifying all OF drivers to check for it. > > Wouldn't the better approach be to have of_platform_device_probe() > itself do the check, and not call the driver's probe() routine if the > device isn't available? > _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
