linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 02/18] of/platform: add of_platform

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Date:	Fri, 11 Sep 2015 10:57:48 +0100
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:	Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu.vizoso@...labora.com>
Cc:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>,
	Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@....samsung.com>,
	Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
	"devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 02/18] of/platform: add of_platform_probe

On Mon, Sep 07, 2015 at 02:31:06PM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> On 11 August 2015 at 11:37, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu.vizoso@...labora.com> wrote:
> > On 7 August 2015 at 14:19, Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org> wrote:

> >> This sounds like it's going to break in the case where we have MFDs that
> >> represent their functions in DT (not a pattern I'm a fan of but it's a
> >> thing people do).  We'll walk back to the platform device for the MFD
> >> function, try to probe it and then give up.  Perhaps that's good enough
> >> anyway but it's not clear to me why we don't just try every parent we
> >> find?

> > Agreed. In the attempt at probing dependencies before a device is
> > probed, I considered that a device's parent is also a dependency and

> Actually I'm not sure how we could probe the ascendants on demand, as
> currently the parent's device lock is taken when probing so trying to
> probe a sibling from within a probe callback will cause a deadlock.

How do silbilings come into this?  There is an issue there but it's
going to happen anyway.

> AFAICS this is only needed for USB interface devices and this
> behaviour could be limited to them, but I don't like much assuming
> that no USB device will ever have a dependency on a sibling (though
> that probably won't happen ever).

I don't see the connection with USB here, sorry - my initial thought was
about MFDs?

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