On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 09:57:06AM +0200, Hiroshi Doyu wrote: > ops->{bound,unbind}_driver() functions are called at > BUS_NOTIFY_{BOUND,UNBIND}_DRIVER respectively. > > This is necessary to control the device population order. IOMMU master > devices depend on an IOMMU device instanciation. IOMMU master devices > can be registered to an IOMMU only after it's successfully > populated. This IOMMU registration is done via > ops->bound_driver(). Currently this population can be deferred if > depending IOMMU device hasn't yet been populated in driver core. This > cannot be done via ops->add_device() since after add_device() device's > population/instanciation can be still deferred via probe(). How about doing dependency checking in the add/remove_device callbacks instead? When a device is about to be initialized where the IOMMU is not set up yet, just setup the IOMMU first before initializing the device? Joerg -- 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