On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 04:21:16PM +0200, Lothar Waßmann wrote:
> commit 40dcd0e introduced the following code to the ci_hdrc_probe()
> function:
> 
> +       if (!dev->of_node && dev->parent)
> +               dev->of_node = dev->parent->of_node;
> 
> This inadvertently associates the ci_hdrc device with the ci_hdrc_imx
> driver (which created the ci_hdrc device in the first place).
> 
> This results in ci_hdrc_imx_probe() being run for the ci_hdrc device
> if ci_hdrc_probe() fails for some reason.
> ci_hdrc_imx_probe() will happily create a new ci_hdrc platform_device
> whose probing will likewise fail and trigger a new invocation of
> ci_hdrc_imx_probe() ... ad nauseam.
> 

Sorry, I can't understand how it happenes?

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Best Regards,
Peter Chen

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