On Tuesday, October 20, 2015 08:35:28 PM Mark Brown wrote: > > --7fVr/IRGAG9sAW4J > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 01:14:46PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Oct 2015, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > > > > This iteration of the series would make this quite easy, as > > > dependencies are calculated before probes are attempted: > > > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/6/17/311 > > > But what Rafael is proposing is quite general; it would apply to _all_ > > dependencies as opposed to just those present in DT drivers or those=20 > > affecting platform_devices. > > We'll still need most of the DT bits that are there at the minute (the > ones strewn around the subsystems) AFAICT since it's at the point where > we parse the DT and work out what the dependencies are which we probably > want to do prior to getting the drivers up and will be different for > ACPI. I think the level of DT dependency here looks a lot larger than > it actually is due to the fact that a lot of what's being modified is DT > parsing code.
Right, something will have to register the dependency, or a "link" between devices, with the core once we find out that the dependency is there. Thanks, Rafael
