Re: [PATCH v2] ARM: dts: am33xx: Move the cppi41dma node so it's probed early

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On 12 May 10:29 AM, George Cherian wrote:
> On 4/25/2014 2:41 AM, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> >The DMA controller is needed for the USB controller to be correctly
> >registered. Therefore, if the DMA node is located at the end an unecessary
> >probe deferral is produced systematically.
> >
> >This is easily fixed by moving the node at the beggining of the child list,
> >so it's probed first.
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: George Cherian <george.cherian@xxxxxx>

Actually, I'm having second thoughts about this patch. I think it's really
fragile to depend on the devicetree ordering. Instead, I've prepared a patch
that forces the driver to probe the nodes in strict order, based in the
compatible string.
-- 
Ezequiel Garcia, VanguardiaSur
www.vanguardiasur.com.ar
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