[PATCH v7 20/20] of/platform: Defer probes of registered devices

Frank Rowand frowand.list at gmail.com
Wed Oct 14 16:12:23 PDT 2015


On 9/29/2015 2:10 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> Instead of trying to match and probe platform and AMBA devices right
> after each is registered, delay their probes until device_initcall_sync.
                                                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                                                     late_initcall

> 
> This means that devices will start probing once all built-in drivers
> have registered, and after all platform and AMBA devices from the DT
> have been registered already.
> 
> This allows us to prevent deferred probes by probing dependencies on
> demand.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu.vizoso at collabora.com>
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