On Tue, Feb 07, 2023 at 09:57:14PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > Hi Saravana, > > On Tue, Feb 7, 2023 at 2:42 AM Saravana Kannan <saravanak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The driver core now: > > - Has the parent device of a supplier pick up the consumers if the > > supplier never has a device created for it. > > - Ignores a supplier if the supplier has no parent device and will never > > be probed by a driver > > > > And already prevents creating a device link with the consumer as a > > supplier of a parent. > > > > So, we no longer need to find the "compatible" node of the supplier or > > do any other checks in of_link_to_phandle(). We simply need to make sure > > that the supplier is available in DT. > > > > Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Thanks for your patch! > > This patch introduces a regression when dynamically loading DT overlays. > Unfortunately this happens when using the out-of-tree OF configfs, > which is not supported upstream. Still, there may be (obscure) > in-tree users. As we can't do anything about out-of-tree code, why does this matter? thanks, greg k-h
