Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 6 Jan 2011 10:35:35 +1100 | From | David Gibson <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] of/device: Don't register disabled devices |
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On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 02:53:27PM -0800, Blanchard, Hollis wrote: > On 01/03/2011 03:01 PM, Grant Likely wrote: > > Device nodes with the property status="disabled" are not usable and so > > don't register them when parsing the device tree for devices. > > > This is great and all, but a fair amount of driver code explicitly > searches the tree, rather than registering a probe function. That's why > our earlier patches in this area were more comprehensive. > > What are your thoughts on handling those cases?
One by one. Trying to handle the explicit searches automagically is just asking for trouble.
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