[PATCH/RFC] treewide: Fix instantiation of devices in DT overlay
Mark Brown
broonie at kernel.org
Mon Mar 20 09:02:58 PDT 2023
On Fri, Mar 17, 2023 at 11:33:18AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> When loading a DT overlay that creates a device, the device is not
> instantiated, unless the DT overlay is unloaded and reloaded again.
>
> Saravana explains:
> Basically for all overlays (I hope the function is only used for
> overlays) we assume all nodes are NOT devices until they actually
> get added as a device. Don't review the code, it's not meant to be :)
>
> Based on a hacky patch by Saravana Kannan, which covered only platform
> and spi devices.
Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org>
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