On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 10:48:23PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 8:35 PM, Mark Brown <broo...@kernel.org> wrote:

> > A parent (especially a MFD) may create a child to fulfil a role that
> > could also be filled by a non-parent device, if that happens then
> > depending on what ends up creating these links (it's not 100% clear from
> > this series) it's likely that the link creation will also end up
> > registering a dependency unless we do something special.  Now I think
> > about it this does depend on how we create the children though, it's
> > less likely to be an issue if the dependencies are created by firmware
> > code.

> If that's a non-child device, I would expect it to exist beforehand

No, it's an actual child.

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