Hi Pawel, On 02/11/2014 11:53 AM, Pawel Moll wrote: > This patch tries to solve that issue in a generic way, > adding a "populated" flag which is set in the device_node > structure when a device is being created in the core. > Later, of_platform_populate() skips such nodes (and > its children) in a similar way to the non-available ones. Will there never be a case where it is useful for a parent node to be created early, but not necessarily the child nodes? Might only skipping nodes explicitly marked as populated be a more universal solution? Regards, Christopher -- Employee of Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum, hosted by the Linux Foundation. -- 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