When looking up a backlight device through its firmware node, probe it if it hasn't already. The goal is to reduce deferred probes to a minimum, as it makes it very cumbersome to find out why a device failed to probe, and can introduce very big delays in when a critical device is probed. Signed-off-by: Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu.vizoso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Changes in v2: None drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c b/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c index bddc8b17a4d8..f7151d916435 100644 --- a/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c +++ b/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c @@ -559,6 +559,8 @@ struct backlight_device *of_find_backlight_by_node(struct device_node *node) { struct device *dev; + fwnode_ensure_device(&node->fwnode); + dev = class_find_device(backlight_class, NULL, node, of_parent_match); return dev ? to_backlight_device(dev) : NULL; -- 2.4.3 -- 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