Re: [PATCH v4 04/22] of: add function to allow probing a device from a OF node

[Rob Herring]

On 09/07/2015 07:23 AM, 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.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu.vizoso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Looks pretty good to me. One comment below.

[...]

> diff --git a/drivers/of/platform.c b/drivers/of/platform.c
> index baf04d7249bd..f089d95ac961 100644
> --- a/drivers/of/platform.c
> +++ b/drivers/of/platform.c
> @@ -269,6 +269,8 @@ static struct amba_device *of_amba_device_create(struct device_node *node,
>  		goto err_free;
>  	}
>  
> +	node->device = &dev->dev;
> +

This seems oddly placed. Can you move to patch 3?

>  	return dev;
>  
>  err_free:
> diff --git a/include/linux/of_device.h b/include/linux/of_device.h
> index cc7dd687a89d..da8d489e73ad 100644
> --- a/include/linux/of_device.h
> +++ b/include/linux/of_device.h
> @@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ extern ssize_t of_device_get_modalias(struct device *dev,
>  
>  extern void of_device_uevent(struct device *dev, struct kobj_uevent_env *env);
>  extern int of_device_uevent_modalias(struct device *dev, struct kobj_uevent_env *env);
> +extern void of_device_probe(struct device_node *np);
>  
>  static inline void of_device_node_put(struct device *dev)
>  {
> @@ -84,6 +85,8 @@ static inline int of_device_uevent_modalias(struct device *dev,
>  	return -ENODEV;
>  }
>  
> +static inline void of_device_probe(struct device_node *np) { }
> +
>  static inline void of_device_node_put(struct device *dev) { }
>  
>  static inline const struct of_device_id *__of_match_device(
> 

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