Re: [RFC] of/platform: Create device link between simple-mfd and its children

[Rob Herring]

On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 6:43 AM Nicolas Saenz Julienne
<nsaenzjulienne@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 'simple-mfd' usage implies there might be some kind of resource sharing
> between the parent device and its children.

It does? No! The reason behind simple-mfd was specifically because
there was no parent driver or dependency on the parent. No doubt
simple-mfd has been abused.

Rob

> By creating a device link
> with DL_FLAG_AUTOREMOVE_CONSUMER we make sure that at no point in time
> the parent device is unbound while leaving its children unaware that
> some of their resources disappeared.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzjulienne@xxxxxxx>