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SubjectRe: [RFC][PATCH 2/5] driver core: Functional dependencies tracking support
On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 2:48 PM, Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 02:54:17AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>
>> + * A side effect of the link creation is re-ordering of dpm_list and the
>> + * devices_kset list by moving the consumer device and all devices depending
>> + * on it to the ends of those lists.
>
> How does this work in the scenario where a device instantiates a child
> device then uses services that child provides to complete the
> initializiation? We do have that scenario currently for on chip
> regulators to allow external regulators to be used.

I'm not sure I understand the question correctly, but it that is the
parent and a child, we don't need an extra link entity to represent
that dependency, as parent-child dependencies are taken by the current
code into account already.

This series was supposed to help with dependencies that aren't of the
parent-child type.

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