linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 04/20] of: add function to allow probing a device from a OF node

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Message-ID: <20151017065304.GB18329@kroah.com>
Date:	Fri, 16 Oct 2015 23:53:04 -0700
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu.vizoso@...labora.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>,
	Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@....samsung.com>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
	Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
	devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
	Russell King <rmk+kernel@....linux.org.uk>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
	Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 04/20] of: add function to allow probing a device from
 a OF node

On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 11:10:42AM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> Walks the OF tree up and finds the closest ancestor that has a struct
> device associated with it, probing it if isn't bound to a driver yet.
> 
> The above should ensure that the dependency represented by the passed OF
> node is available, because probing a device should cause its descendants
> to be probed as well (when they get registered).
> 
> Subsystems can use this when looking up resources for drivers, to reduce
> the chances of deferred probes because of the probing order of devices.

How do subsystems know to do this?  Under what situation?  Why is this a
of-only type thing?  Why don't other busses need this?

I don't like to special-case a single bus like this at all if
possible...

thanks,

greg k-h
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