On Tue, 13 May 2014 07:24:50 -0500, Rob Herring <robherring2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 6:48 AM, Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > In "Device Tree powered" systems, platform devices are usually > > massively populated with of_platform_populate() call, executed > > at some level of initcalls, either by generic architecture > > or by platform-specific code. > > > > There are situations though where certain devices must be > > created (and bound with drivers) before all the others. > > This presents a challenge, as devices created explicitly > > would be created again by of_platform_populate(). > > > > This patch tries to solve that issue in a generic way, > > adding a "populated" flag for a DT node description. > > Once set, this device will never be created again via > > of_* API, so of_platform_populate() will skip such nodes > > (and its children) in a similar way to the non-available > > ones. > > > > The flag is cleared when a device is being removed and > > returns the DT node by calling of_device_node_put() (it > > was missing from the amba device release function, added). > > > > Signed-off-by: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@xxxxxxx> > > A few formatting nits, but otherwise: > > Reviewed-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@xxxxxxxxxx> g. -- 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
