Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@xxxxxxxxx> wrote @ Wed, 17 Jul 2013 01:16:30 +0200: > * PGP Signed by an unknown key > > On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 04:57:03PM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote: > > On 07/05/2013 04:44 AM, Hiroshi Doyu wrote: > > > To prevent of_platform_populate() from trying to populate duplicate > > > devices if a device has been already populated. > > > > You need to send drivers/of patches to the DT maintainer and > > devicetree-discuss mailing list. > > > > > Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Doyu <hdoyu@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > --- > > > Need to take care of early_platform_devices, or alternative solution. > > > > I assume that's a TODO item... Are you planning on fleshing out this > > patch to address that issue? > > There was some more discussion about it, which can be found in the > following thread: > > https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/devicetree-discuss/2013-June/036934.html > > That's one of the last messages and it should have most of the > background. If not you may have to walk up the thread for more context. > In a nutshell I raised the question as to why we can't simply call > of_platform_populate() earlier and side-step all the workarounds that > have found their way into the kernel to side-step the issue of their not > being a struct device associated with the struct device_node. This is the thread which Lorenzo started originally. He may have some plan to implement/proceed with this, Lorenzo? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tegra" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
