On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 3:59 PM, Ralf Ramsauer <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Instantiated SPI device nodes are marked with OF_POPULATE. This was > introduced in bd6c164. On unloading, loaded device nodes will of course > be unmarked. The problem are nodes that fail during initialisation: If a > node fails, it won't be unloaded and hence not be unmarked. > > If a SPI driver module is unloaded and reloaded, it will skip nodes that > failed before. > > Skip device nodes that are already populated and mark them only in case > of success. > > Note that the same issue exists for I2C. > > Fixes: bd6c164 ("spi: Mark instantiated device nodes with OF_POPULATE") > Signed-off-by: Ralf Ramsauer <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx> Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-i2c" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html