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 the fail during initialisation: If a node failed during registration, it won't be unloaded and hence never be unmarked again. So 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. Fixes: bd6c164 ("spi: Mark instantiated device nodes with OF_POPULATE") Signed-off-by: Ralf Ramsauer <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx> --- Hi, imagine the following situation: you loaded a spi driver as module, but it fails to instantiate, because of some reasons (e.g. some resources, like gpios, might be in use in userspace). When reloading the driver, _all_ nodes, including previously failed ones, should be probed again. This is not the case at the moment. Current behaviour only re-registers nodes that were previously successfully loaded. This small patches fixes this behaviour. I stumbled over this while working on a spi driver. Ralf drivers/spi/spi.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi.c b/drivers/spi/spi.c index 200ca22..f96a04e 100644 --- a/drivers/spi/spi.c +++ b/drivers/spi/spi.c @@ -1604,12 +1604,15 @@ static void of_register_spi_devices(struct spi_master *master) return; for_each_available_child_of_node(master->dev.of_node, nc) { - if (of_node_test_and_set_flag(nc, OF_POPULATED)) + if (of_node_check_flag(nc, OF_POPULATED)) continue; spi = of_register_spi_device(master, nc); - if (IS_ERR(spi)) + if (IS_ERR(spi)) { dev_warn(&master->dev, "Failed to create SPI device for %s\n", nc->full_name); + continue; + } + of_node_set_flag(nc, OF_POPULATED); } } #else -- 2.10.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-spi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html