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From: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] dm: core: allow drivers to refuse to bind
Date: Wed, 4 May 2016 13:46:41 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <572A51A1.2070501@wwwdotorg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPnjgZ300mZGtyWLjFYEcyrSmObWPSk2yq1_50P7gGcDCxpQ5Q@mail.gmail.com>

On 05/04/2016 01:31 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi Stephen,
>
> On 4 May 2016 at 12:57, Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
>> On 04/19/2016 04:19 PM, Stephen Warren wrote:
>>>
>>> From: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
>>>
>>> In some cases, drivers may not want to bind to a device. Allow bind() to
>>> return -ENODEV in this case, and don't treat this as an error. This can
>>> be useful in situations where some information source other than the DT
>>> node's main status property indicates whether the device should be
>>> enabled, for example other DT properties might indicate this, or the
>>> driver might query non-DT sources such as system fuses or a version number
>>> register.
>>
>>
>> Simon, this series is assigned to you in patchwork. Are you the right person
>> to apply it?
>
> Yes. but not for this release, right?

Patch 2 in the series (which depends on this patch) fixes a bug for 
Tegra boards with LCD panels. Admittedly it appears to be only cosmetic 
(an error message is printed at boot), but "it's a bug" seems to satisfy 
the requirement to apply it for this release.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-04 19:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-19 22:19 [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] dm: core: allow drivers to refuse to bind Stephen Warren
2016-04-19 22:19 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2] video: tegra: refuse to bind to disabled dcs Stephen Warren
2016-04-20 12:49   ` Thierry Reding
2016-04-20 13:16   ` Simon Glass
2016-05-07 19:03     ` Simon Glass
2016-04-20 14:42 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] dm: core: allow drivers to refuse to bind Simon Glass
2016-05-04 18:57 ` Stephen Warren
2016-05-04 19:31   ` Simon Glass
2016-05-04 19:46     ` Stephen Warren [this message]
2016-05-04 19:48       ` Simon Glass
2016-05-04 20:02         ` Stephen Warren
2016-05-04 20:09           ` Simon Glass
2016-05-07 19:02             ` Simon Glass

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