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Message-ID: <20140308115948.GX21483@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2014 11:59:48 +0000
From: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
To: Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>
Cc: Jean-Jacques Hiblot <jjhiblot@...phandler.com>,
gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, robh+dt@...nel.org,
gregory.clement@...e-electrons.com, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] dt: platform driver: Fill the resources before
probe and defer if needed
On Sat, Mar 08, 2014 at 07:37:58AM +0000, Grant Likely wrote:
> I believe we already talked about the above test. This function must
> only process devices created by of_platform_populate(). Merely checking
> the of_node pointer is not a sufficient test because there are other
> paths in the kernel for creating platform_devices that might get a node
> pointer attached to it.
There definitely are: there are a number of platform device drivers
which create a new platform device structure, and copy the of_node
pointer across.
However, that's really sick code, and can result in the platform device
driver probing the device it just created... this practise should be
outlawed.
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