[PATCH v2] dt: platform driver: Fill the resources before probe and defer if needed

[Jean-Jacques Hiblot]

Hi Grant,

Sorry for the delay, I was having nice vacations.

2014-03-08 8:37 GMT+01:00 Grant Likely <grant.likely at linaro.org>:
> On Fri, 21 Feb 2014 14:18:40 +0100, Jean-Jacques Hiblot <jjhiblot at traphandler.com> wrote:
>> The goal of this patch is to allow drivers to be probed even if at the time of
>> the DT parsing some of their ressources are not available yet.
>
> Hi Jean-Jacques
>
> [...]
>> +int of_platform_device_prepare(struct platform_device *dev)
>> +{
>> +     struct device_node *np;
>> +     int i, irq_index;
>> +     struct resource *res;
>> +
>> +     /*
>> +      * This function applies only devices described in the DT.
>> +      * Other platform devices have their ressources already populated.
>> +      */
>> +     np = dev->dev.of_node;
>> +     if (!np)
>> +             return 0;
>
> I believe we already talked about the above test. This function must
> only process devices created by of_platform_populate(). Merely checking
> the of_node pointer is not a sufficient test because there are other
> paths in the kernel for creating platform_devices that might get a node
> pointer attached to it.
Yes we talked about this, but only to move it into of_platform_device_prepare().
Is there an existing way to know for sure that the device has been
created by of_platform_populate() ? I could not find one.

Jean-Jacques
>
> g.
>