| Subject | Re: [PATCH v6 22/22] of/platform: Defer probes of registered devices | From | Scott Wood <> | Date | Wed, 21 Oct 2015 00:54:05 -0500 |
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On Mon, 2015-09-21 at 16:03 +0200, 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. > > 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@collabora.com> > --- > > Changes in v4: > - Also defer probes of AMBA devices registered from the DT as they can > also request resources. > > drivers/of/platform.c | 11 ++++++++--- > 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
This breaks arch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_pci.c. The PCI bus is an OF platform device, and it must be probed before pcibios_init() which is a subsys_initcall(), or else the PCI bus never gets scanned.
-Scott
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