On Tue, 2014-02-11 at 12:32 -0500, Christopher Covington wrote: > 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? That's a good point. I've assumed one would either use of_platform_device_create() on leaf nodes only (or of_platform_populate() on subtree), and kept this approach in the refreshed patch I'm about to post, but I'm happy to do what you suggested. Thanks! Pawel -- 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
