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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>, Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>,
	Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>,
	devicetree@vger.kernel.org, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Strange location and name for platform  devices when device-tree is used.
Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2013 07:22:10 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1383423730.4776.16.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131102155824.GG23938@kroah.com>

On Sat, 2013-11-02 at 08:58 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> Just loop through all the platform devices before registering it to
> determine if you need to do this, the platform code can do this just
> fine.  If you try to register a duplicate name with the driver core,
> odds are it will complain loudly, so don't do that.

But that loop + registration is racy ... oh well, we might do something
better with Neil's idea of labels instead.

Ben.



  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-02 20:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-01  3:59 Strange location and name for platform devices when device-tree is used NeilBrown
2013-11-01  4:22 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-11-01  4:27   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-11-01  5:03     ` NeilBrown
2013-11-01  5:08       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-11-01 18:04         ` Grant Likely
2013-11-01 20:33           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-11-15  7:37             ` Grant Likely
2013-11-01 20:48           ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-11-01 20:47         ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-11-01 23:09           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-11-02 15:58             ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-11-02 20:22               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2013-11-02 20:40                 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-11-03 21:12                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-11-03 21:09               ` NeilBrown
2013-11-01 23:10           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-11-01 23:45             ` NeilBrown
2013-11-04  8:56               ` Thierry Reding
2013-11-15  7:44               ` Grant Likely

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