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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh-XVmvHMARGAS8U2dJNN8I7kB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: issues calling of_platform_bus_probe() twice
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 10:29:33 +1100
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To: Tabi Timur-B04825 <B04825-KZfg59tc24xl57MIdRCFDg@public.gmane.org>
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On Sat, 2012-03-17 at 13:35 +0000, Tabi Timur-B04825 wrote:
> >>> >  >  Are you aware of any reason that we can't call
> of_platform_bus_probe()
> >>> >  >  or multiple times.  Timur's run into an issue in which all
> devices
> >>> >  >  don't get registered properly if we call
> of_platform_bus_probe() times
> >>> >  >  with different of_device_id struct's.
> >> >
> >> >  Nothing comes to mind... Grant ?
> > Neither for me.  Should work.
> 
> I posted a work-around patch here:
> 
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/128533/
> 
> Without this patch, drivers cannot probe on DMA *channels*, or any
> other 
> grandchildren of the root node. 

Why don't you track down the actual bug instead ?

Cheers,
Ben.