Re: [PATCH] dt: platform driver: Fill the resources before probe and defer if needed

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Feb 18 2014 - 15:20:51 EST


On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 10:57:09AM +0100, Jean-Jacques Hiblot wrote:
> The goal of this patch is to allow drivers to be probed even if at the time of
> the DT parsing some of their ressources are not available yet.
>
> In the current situation, the resource of a platform device are filled from the
> DT at the time the device is created (of_device_alloc()). The drawbackof this
> is that a device sitting close to the top of the DT (ahb for example) but
> depending on ressources that are initialized later (IRQ domain dynamically
> created for example) will fail to probe because the ressources don't exist
> at this time.
>
> This patch fills the resource structure only before the device is probed and
> will defer the probe if the resource are not available yet.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jean-Jacques Hiblot <jjhiblot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/base/platform.c | 6 ++++
> drivers/of/platform.c | 71 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
> include/linux/of_platform.h | 10 +++++++
> 3 files changed, 62 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)

I need some others to ack this before I can take it...

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/