linux-kernel - Re: arm qemu test failures due to 'driver-core: platform: probe of-devices only using list of compatibles'

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Date:	Mon, 15 Feb 2016 13:03:08 -0800
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Uwe Kleine-König 
	<u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
Cc:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>, linux-next@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: arm qemu test failures due to 'driver-core: platform: probe
 of-devices only using list of compatibles'

On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 06:12:01PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Hello Greg,
> 
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 08:49:37AM -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 05:27:53PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > > Greg, can you drop this patch, or do you need a proper changelog for a
> > > revert? On top of that I'd then create a new patch which is more
> > > conservative.
> > 
> > A hint as to what the git commit id was would be helpful, I can just
> > revert it based on that.
> 
> This is 67d02a1bbb33 ("driver-core: platform: probe of-devices only
> using list of compatibles")
> 
> If you need a log, something like:
> 
> 	Reallow binding of of-devices by name
> 
> 	It turned out that there are valid reasons (e.g. step by step
> 	conversion to device tree probing using auxdata) to bind
> 	of-instantiated devices to drivers by name. So revert to the
> 	original logic.

Now reverted, thanks for the text.

greg k-h