Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/5] driver core: Functional dependencies tracking support

From	Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/5] driver core: Functional dependencies tracking support
Date	2016-06-09 00:30 +0200
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On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 10:48:23PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 8:35 PM, Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> wrote:

> > A parent (especially a MFD) may create a child to fulfil a role that
> > could also be filled by a non-parent device, if that happens then
> > depending on what ends up creating these links (it's not 100% clear from
> > this series) it's likely that the link creation will also end up
> > registering a dependency unless we do something special.  Now I think
> > about it this does depend on how we create the children though, it's
> > less likely to be an issue if the dependencies are created by firmware
> > code.

> If that's a non-child device, I would expect it to exist beforehand

No, it's an actual child.

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Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/5] driver core: Functional dependencies tracking  support Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> - 2016-06-08 14:50 +0200
  Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/5] driver core: Functional dependencies tracking support "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> - 2016-06-08 20:20 +0200
    Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/5] driver core: Functional dependencies tracking  support Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> - 2016-06-08 20:40 +0200
      Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/5] driver core: Functional dependencies tracking support "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> - 2016-06-08 22:50 +0200
        Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/5] driver core: Functional dependencies tracking  support Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> - 2016-06-09 00:30 +0200

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