linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] On-demand device probing

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Message-ID: <1445247881.53393.146.camel@infradead.org>
Date:	Mon, 19 Oct 2015 10:44:41 +0100
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] On-demand device probing

On Sun, 2015-10-18 at 20:53 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 12:37:57PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 08:29:31PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> > > On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 11:57:50PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 
> > > > I can't see adding calls like this all over the tree just to solve a
> > > > bus-specific problem, you are adding of_* calls where they aren't
> > > > needed, or wanted, at all.
> 
> > > This isn't bus specific, I'm not sure what makes you say that?
> 
> > You are making it bus-specific by putting these calls all over the tree
> > in different bus subsystems semi-randomly for all I can determine.
> 
> Do you mean firmware rather than bus here?  I think that's the confusion
> I have...

Certainly, if it literally is adding of_* calls then that would seem to
be gratuitously firmware-specific. Nothing should be using those these
days; any new code should be using the generic device property APIs
(except in special cases).

-- 
dwmw2


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