On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 07:22:10AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Sat, 2013-11-02 at 08:58 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > Just loop through all the platform devices before registering it to > > determine if you need to do this, the platform code can do this just > > fine. If you try to register a duplicate name with the driver core, > > odds are it will complain loudly, so don't do that. > > But that loop + registration is racy ... oh well, we might do something > better with Neil's idea of labels instead. How is it racy? Only one platform device should be allowed to be registered at a time, there is a per-bus lock that should be used to enforce this, right? thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
