On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 11:10:42AM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > Walks the OF tree up and finds the closest ancestor that has a struct > device associated with it, probing it if isn't bound to a driver yet. > > The above should ensure that the dependency represented by the passed OF > node is available, because probing a device should cause its descendants > to be probed as well (when they get registered). > > Subsystems can use this when looking up resources for drivers, to reduce > the chances of deferred probes because of the probing order of devices. How do subsystems know to do this? Under what situation? Why is this a of-only type thing? Why don't other busses need this? I don't like to special-case a single bus like this at all if possible... thanks, greg k-h -- 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
