On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 11:47:09AM -0500, Thor Thayer wrote: > Hi Steffen! > > Building on Alan's points, I don't see the reference to the child > nodes in the syscon.txt binding documentation - can you point out > what I'm missing? > > I based this patch on other examples of syscon, and there aren't > child nodes (exynos5250.dtsi, omap3.dtsi, etc). According to my > understanding of the device tree parsing, the parent needs to > register child nodes. Since syscon is the parent and doesn't > register the child nodes, they won't be automatically probed. The > other syscon implementations are at the same level as the syscon and > use a phandle to the syscon (for instance the omap3.dtsi). > > Thanks for reviewing! > > Thor Hm, I looked in one of my many directories with some version of the kernel tree checked out, but ... you are right. I can't find where I read that. Seems like I got confused somewhere... There is now version of syscon.txt that mentions anything about childs. Should have drank my morning coffee first. Regards, Steffen -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
