Re: [PATCH v2] drivers: of/base: move of_init to driver_init

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue May 19 2015 - 13:17:42 EST


On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 01:29:16PM +0100, Sudeep Holla wrote:
> Hi Rob/Greg,
>
> On 14/05/15 15:28, Sudeep Holla wrote:
> >Commit 5590f3196b29 ("drivers/core/of: Add symlink to device-tree from
> >devices with an OF node") adds the symlink `of_node` for each device
> >pointing to it's device tree node while creating/initialising it.
> >
> >However the devicetree sysfs is created and setup in of_init which is
> >executed at core_initcall level. For all the devices created before
> >of_init, the following error is thrown:
> > "Error -2(-ENOENT) creating of_node link"
> >
> >Like many other components in driver model, initialize the sysfs support
> >for OF/devicetree from driver_init so that it's ready before any devices
> >are created.
> >
> >Fixes: 5590f3196b29 ("drivers/core/of: Add symlink to device-tree from
> > devices with an OF node")
> >Suggested-by: Rob Herring <robh+dt@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >Cc: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@xxxxxxx>
> >Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@xxxxxxx>
>
> I assume one of you will pick this up if there are no further comments ?

I will once things settle down...
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