[PATCH] powerpc/85xx: don't call of_platform_bus_probe() twice

[Kumar Gala]

On Mar 19, 2012, at 11:04 AM, Grant Likely wrote:

> On Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:50:44 -0500, Timur Tabi <timur at freescale.com> wrote:
>> Kumar Gala wrote:
>> 
>>> This seems like paper taping over the real issue.  We should be able to call of_platform_bus_probe() multiple times.
>> 
>> I tried debugging it, but I couldn't figure it out.  My guess is that the
>> nodes probed by of_platform_bus_probe() are somehow "reserved", so that
>> the second time it's called, they're skipped.  I figured that this was
>> just a side-effect of the way the OF layer works.
> 
> The problem is that you want to create devices for grandchildren
> nodes when the bus ids passed in don't match any of the child nodes so
> the of_platform_bus_probe() doesn't iterate down to that level.  This
> is correct and expected behaviour.
> 
> g.

Does of_platform_populate() handle this?

- k