Re: [PATCH] powerpc/85xx: don't call of_platform_bus_probe() twice

[Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>]

On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 13:43:29 -0500, Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com> wrote:
> Grant Likely wrote:
> > The problem is that you want to create devices for grandchildren
> > nodes when the bus ids passed in don't match any of the child nodes so
> > the of_platform_bus_probe() doesn't iterate down to that level.  This
> > is correct and expected behaviour.
> 
> Well, I'm not still not 100% sure on what I'm supposed to do, so I tried this:
> 
> static struct of_device_id __initdata p1022_ds_ids[] = {
> 	/* The audio driver probes the SSI DMA channels individually */
> 	{ .compatible = "fsl,ssi-dma-channel", },
> 	{},
> };
> 
> static int __init p1022_ds_publish_devices(void)
> {
> 	struct device_node *np;
> 	int ret;
> 
> 	mpc85xx_common_publish_devices();
> 
> 	for_each_compatible_node(np, NULL, "fsl,eloplus-dma") {
> 		ret = of_platform_bus_probe(np, p1022_ds_ids, NULL);
> 		if (ret)
> 			return ret;

Does a driver bind against "fsl,eloplus-dma"?  If so, then I would
call of_platform_populate() from within the fsl,eloplus-dma driver's
probe method.

g.