[PATCH v6 04/22] of: add function to allow probing a device from a OF node

Mark Brown broonie at kernel.org
Thu Oct 22 16:54:19 PDT 2015


On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 03:03:37PM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> On 22 October 2015 at 03:06, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw at rjwysocki.net> wrote:

> > Same question as from Greg: How does a subsystem know whether or not to use
> > this function?

> Maybe I don't understand the comment, but as the commit message says,
> subsystems can use this when looking up resources for drivers. Or you
> mean that this information should be in the API docs?

I'm pretty sure what he's suggesting here is changing to "should always"
(ie, explain the situations when a subsystem would do this, including
decision criteria if it's optional).
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