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 14:02:24 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <572A5550.5040107@wwwdotorg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPnjgZ2QQ28mhv0d_DqVQxyN+899xiP23coYo9ReTQFCYkCV8Q@mail.gmail.com>
On 05/04/2016 01:48 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
> +Tom Rini
>
> Hi Stephen,
>
> On 4 May 2016 at 13:46, Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Sorry, I didn't know that. Given the core nature of this patch I would
> rather wait, and apply it next week. Let me know if you disagree.
I suppose that it's been broken long enough that another release won't
matter.
Was my explanation of the bug in the description of patch 2/2 not clear
in some way?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-04 20:02 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
2016-05-04 19:48 ` Simon Glass
2016-05-04 20:02 ` Stephen Warren [this message]
2016-05-04 20:09 ` Simon Glass
2016-05-07 19:02 ` Simon Glass
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