If a common DT binding is pointing to a child DT node of a particular
parent DT node, don't add device links for such DT references. This is
because, by definition, a child node can't be a functional dependency for
the parent node.
Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/of/platform.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/of/platform.c b/drivers/of/platform.c
index dba962a0ee50..98414ba53b1f 100644
--- a/drivers/of/platform.c
+++ b/drivers/of/platform.c
@@ -512,6 +512,19 @@ int of_platform_default_populate(struct device_node *root,
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(of_platform_default_populate);
+bool of_link_is_valid(struct device_node *con, struct device_node *sup)
+{
+ of_node_get(sup);
+ while (sup) {
+ if (sup == con) {
+ of_node_put(sup);
+ return false;
+ }
+ sup = of_get_next_parent(sup);
+ }
+ return true;
+}
+
static int of_link_binding(struct device *dev,
const char *binding, const char *cell)
{
@@ -522,6 +535,10 @@ static int of_link_binding(struct device *dev,
while (!of_parse_phandle_with_args(dev->of_node, binding, cell, i,
&sup_args)) {
+ if (!of_link_is_valid(dev->of_node, sup_args.np)) {
+ of_node_put(sup_args.np);
+ continue;
+ }
i++;
sup_dev = of_find_device_by_node(sup_args.np);
of_node_put(sup_args.np);
--
2.22.0.510.g264f2c817a-goog
