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From: Christopher Covington <cov@codeaurora.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] driver core & of: Mark of_nodes of added device as
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Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 12:32:36 -0500
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Hi Pawel,

On 02/11/2014 11:53 AM, Pawel Moll wrote:
> This patch tries to solve that issue in a generic way,
> adding a "populated" flag which is set in the device_node
> structure when a device is being created in the core.
> Later, of_platform_populate() skips such nodes (and
> its children) in a similar way to the non-available ones.

Will there never be a case where it is useful for a parent node to be created
early, but not necessarily the child nodes? Might only skipping nodes
explicitly marked as populated be a more universal solution?

Regards,
Christopher

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