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Message-ID: <CAL_JsqKehmSobpbdeXGo=-1pAbtrhCHovyyCWya_MNOhGCi8CQ@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 07:35:05 -0500 From: Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org> To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu.vizoso@...labora.com>, Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>, Michael Turquette <mturquette@...libre.com>, Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>, Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com>, Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>, Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@...il.com>, Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>, David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>, Terje Bergström <tbergstrom@...dia.com>, Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>, Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>, Frank Rowand <frowand.list@...il.com>, Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>, Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@...com>, Sebastian Reichel <sre@...nel.org>, Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@...il.com>, Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>, Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>, Jingoo Han <jingoohan1@...il.com>, Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>, Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@...osoft.com>, Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@...com>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-clk@...r.kernel.org, dmaengine@...r.kernel.org, "linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org" <linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org>, dri-devel <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>, "linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org" <linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org>, "linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org" <linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org>, "devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>, "linux-pm@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>, Linux PWM List <linux-pwm@...r.kernel.org>, Linux USB List <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>, "linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org" <linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] On-demand device probing On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 4:44 AM, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org> wrote: > 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). See version 2 of the series[1] which did that. It became obvious that was pointless because the call paths ended up looking like this: Generic subsystem code -> DT look-up code -> fwnode_probe_device -> of_probe_device Rob [1] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2015-July/361137.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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