On Mon, 17 Mar 2014 12:07:37 +0100, Jean-Jacques Hiblot <jjhiblot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Grant,
>
> Sorry for the delay, I was having nice vacations.
>
> 2014-03-08 8:37 GMT+01:00 Grant Likely <grant.likely@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> > On Fri, 21 Feb 2014 14:18:40 +0100, Jean-Jacques Hiblot <jjhiblot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> The goal of this patch is to allow drivers to be probed even if at the time of
> >> the DT parsing some of their ressources are not available yet.
> >
> > Hi Jean-Jacques
> >
> > [...]
> >> +int of_platform_device_prepare(struct platform_device *dev)
> >> +{
> >> + struct device_node *np;
> >> + int i, irq_index;
> >> + struct resource *res;
> >> +
> >> + /*
> >> + * This function applies only devices described in the DT.
> >> + * Other platform devices have their ressources already populated.
> >> + */
> >> + np = dev->dev.of_node;
> >> + if (!np)
> >> + return 0;
> >
> > I believe we already talked about the above test. This function must
> > only process devices created by of_platform_populate(). Merely checking
> > the of_node pointer is not a sufficient test because there are other
> > paths in the kernel for creating platform_devices that might get a node
> > pointer attached to it.
> Yes we talked about this, but only to move it into of_platform_device_prepare().
> Is there an existing way to know for sure that the device has been
> created by of_platform_populate() ? I could not find one.
No there isn't. That information is used at population time and then
discarded. We'd need to add a flag or registry to mark those devices.
g.
>
> Jean-Jacques
> >
> > g.
> >
>
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