[PATCH 11/28] coresight: delay initialisation when children are missing

Mathieu Poirier mathieu.poirier at linaro.org
Thu Aug 25 14:19:01 PDT 2016


Depending on when CoreSight device are discovered it is possible
that some IP block may be referencing devices that have not been
added to the bus yet.  The end result is missing nodes in the
CoreSight topology even when the devices are present and properly
initialised.

This patch solves the problem by asking the driver core to
try initialising the device at a later time when the children
of a CoreSight node are missing.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier at linaro.org>
---
 drivers/hwtracing/coresight/of_coresight.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/of_coresight.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/of_coresight.c
index b68da1888fd5..18f1c8c4776b 100644
--- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/of_coresight.c
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/of_coresight.c
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ struct coresight_platform_data *of_get_coresight_platform_data(
 
 			rdev = of_coresight_get_endpoint_device(rparent);
 			if (!rdev)
-				continue;
+				return ERR_PTR(-EPROBE_DEFER);
 
 			pdata->child_names[i] = dev_name(rdev);
 			pdata->child_ports[i] = rendpoint.id;
-- 
2.7.4




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