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

From: Uwe Kleine-König
Date: Mon Feb 15 2016 - 03:18:27 EST


Hello Russell,

On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 08:07:55PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 08:55:01PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > So the unexpected abnormality here is that even though this device is
> > instantiated by dt, the driver doesn't provide any compatibles.
> > Either my expectation is wrong, then 67d02a1bbb33455 should be reverted
>
> Your expectation is wrong. AMBA primecell devices have hardware IDs
> and are matched to their drivers by those IDs. Just like PCI.

pci devices don't appear in dt, do they? I don't see the connection
between amba devices and platform devices, see my other mail in this
thread for some more details.

Best regards
Uwe

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