Device tree question

[Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>]

A bit off topic, but perhaps someone here knows the answer :-)

If my device tree has a device/element that is enabled, why would
that device be disabled when I boot?  I have this on my (LS1021) board:
         quadspi@1550000 {
             compatible = "fsl,ls1-qspi";
             #address-cells = <0x00000001>;
             #size-cells = <0x00000000>;
             reg = <0x00000000 0x01550000 0x00000000 0x00010000 0x00000000 0x40000000 0x00000000 0x04000000>;
             reg-names = "QuadSPI", "QuadSPI-memory";
             interrupts = <0x00000000 0x00000083 0x00000004>;
             clock-names = "qspi_en", "qspi";
             clocks = <0x00000003 0x00000001 0x00000003 0x00000001>;
             big-endian;
             amba-base = <0x40000000>;
             num-cs = <0x00000002>;
             status = "okay";
             s70fl01gs@0 {
                 #address-cells = <0x00000001>;
                 #size-cells = <0x00000001>;
                 compatible = "spansion,s70fl01gs";
                 spi-max-frequency = <0x02faf080>;
                 reg = <0x00000000>;
                 partition@0 {
                     label = "s70fl01gs-0";
                     reg = <0x00000000 0x04000000>;
                 };
             };
         };

However when I boot the system, this device is disabled.
   # cat /proc/device-tree/soc/quadspi@1550000/status
   disabled
I know this must happen very early on as the device driver
for this device is never even probed.

Any ideas where/why this becomes disabled and how I keep that
from happening?

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