[GIT PULL] On-demand device probing

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Tuesday, October 20, 2015 08:35:28 PM Mark Brown wrote:
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> On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 01:14:46PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> > On Tue, 20 Oct 2015, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
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> > > This iteration of the series would make this quite easy, as
> > > dependencies are calculated before probes are attempted:
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> > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/6/17/311
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> > But what Rafael is proposing is quite general; it would apply to _all_
> > dependencies as opposed to just those present in DT drivers or those=20
> > affecting platform_devices.
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> We'll still need most of the DT bits that are there at the minute (the
> ones strewn around the subsystems) AFAICT since it's at the point where
> we parse the DT and work out what the dependencies are which we probably
> want to do prior to getting the drivers up and will be different for
> ACPI.  I think the level of DT dependency here looks a lot larger than
> it actually is due to the fact that a lot of what's being modified is DT
> parsing code.

Right, something will have to register the dependency, or a "link" between
devices, with the core once we find out that the dependency is there.

Thanks,
Rafael