The comment to OF_POPULATED_BUS says "of_platform_populate recursed to children of this node". Consider the following structure: ocp { compatible = "simple-bus"; ranges; ... l4_wkup: l4_wkup@44c00000 { compatible = "ti,am3-l4-wkup", "simple-bus"; ranges = <0 0x44c00000 0x280000>; ... wkup_m3: wkup_m3@100000 { compatible = "ti,am3352-wkup-m3"; ... } } } If one DT overlay adds "ocp" node without children then of_platform_notify() creates a platform device, but doesn't set OF_POPULATED_BUS. If second overlay tries to populate children of "ocp" node, corresponding platform devices are not instantiated because of check for OF_POPULATED_BUS flag. If the above example structure is built of several overlays, of_platform_populate() is not involved here at all, so maybe OF_POPULATED_BUS requirement is wrong. Signed-off-by: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/of/platform.c | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/of/platform.c b/drivers/of/platform.c index f39ccd5..acebccd 100644 --- a/drivers/of/platform.c +++ b/drivers/of/platform.c @@ -578,10 +578,6 @@ static int of_platform_notify(struct notifier_block *nb, switch (of_reconfig_get_state_change(action, rd)) { case OF_RECONFIG_CHANGE_ADD: - /* verify that the parent is a bus */ - if (!of_node_check_flag(rd->dn->parent, OF_POPULATED_BUS)) - return NOTIFY_OK; /* not for us */ - /* already populated? (driver using of_populate manually) */ if (of_node_check_flag(rd->dn, OF_POPULATED)) return NOTIFY_OK; -- 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