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

From Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v4 04/22] of: add function to allow probing a device from a OF node
Date 2015-09-11 14:10 +0200
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On Mon, Sep 07, 2015 at 02:23:29PM +0200, 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).

I'm still not seeing how this works for MFDs where the MFD binding is
present directly in DT.

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[PATCH v4 04/22] of: add function to allow probing a device from a OF node Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu.vizoso@collabora.com> - 2015-09-07 14:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v4 04/22] of: add function to allow probing a device from  a OF node Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> - 2015-09-09 07:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v4 04/22] of: add function to allow probing a device from  a OF node Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu.vizoso@collabora.com> - 2015-09-10 17:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v4 04/22] of: add function to allow probing a device from  a OF node Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> - 2015-09-11 14:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v4 04/22] of: add function to allow probing a device from  a OF node Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu.vizoso@collabora.com> - 2015-09-16 10:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v4 04/22] of: add function to allow probing a device from  a OF node Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> - 2015-09-16 21:40 +0200

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