[PATCH 2/6] powerpc/85xx: consolidate of_platform_bus_probe calls

Timur Tabi timur at freescale.com
Wed Nov 30 03:20:03 EST 2011


Timur Tabi wrote:

> If I move the "fsl,eloplus-dma" into mpc85xx_common_ids[], then everything works.
> 
> I suspect there's some kind of state machine in of_platform_bus_probe() that allows it to find the DMA channel nodes if it's scanned everything else first.  I'm trying to debug it now.

So why do we need mpc85xx_common_ids[] at all?  Why can't of_platform_bus_probe() just scan the entire tree?

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Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale



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