Re: device_for_each_child() before device_add() doesn't work

[David Vrabel <david.vrabel@csr.com>]

Greg KH wrote:
> 
> So the problem is for the first device being added, right?  Can't you
> just have a flag for this?

It's trivial to fix in the UWB stack.

>> This address must be assigned during initialization and during normal 
>> operation and in the past we didn't need to special case the address 
>> assignment during initialization.
> 
> Does the patch below fix the problem for you?

Yes.

>  drivers/base/core.c |    3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> --- a/drivers/base/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/core.c
> @@ -1142,6 +1142,9 @@ int device_for_each_child(struct device 
>  	struct device *child;
>  	int error = 0;
>  
> +	if (!parent->p)
> +		return 0;
> +
>  	klist_iter_init(&parent->p->klist_children, &i);
>  	while ((child = next_device(&i)) && !error)
>  		error = fn(child, data);
> 
> 

David
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