linux-kernel - Re: [RFC/RFT][PATCH v2 2/7] driver core: Functional dependencies tracking support

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Date:   Fri, 9 Sep 2016 13:06:21 +0100
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>
Cc:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Linux PM list <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu.vizoso@...labora.com>,
        Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>,
        Lukas Wunner <lukas@...ner.de>,
        Kevin Hilman <khilman@...nel.org>,
        "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...e.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC/RFT][PATCH v2 2/7] driver core: Functional dependencies
 tracking support

On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 10:25:30AM +0200, Ulf Hansson wrote:

> BTW, as I am mostly working on DT based platforms, I guess we would
> later on need to discuss with the DT maintainers how to describe
> device links.

I think the expectation had been that since DT tends to get right down
to the hardware details we already have the information in there in
order to use things so the problem becomes figuring out how/when we
parse the existing bindings to tell the driver core about links.

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