Re: [PATCH] driver core: Ensure proper suspend/resume ordering

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Thu Sep 17 2015 - 14:15:58 EST


Hi,

On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 7:40 AM, Tomeu Vizoso
<tomeu.vizoso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 17 September 2015 at 02:27, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Wednesday, September 16, 2015 03:22:37 PM Alan Stern wrote:
>>>
>>> It would also help if your patch checked to see if the device has any
>>> children, and avoided moving it to the end of the list if it does. In
>>> fact, that might be sufficient to avoid almost all problems.
>>
>> I agree.
>>
>> In any case if a device that already has children is about to be probed,
>> this is sort of a corner case anyway and should be handled as such.
>
> Just wanted to mention that it's very common in platforms that make
> use of DT to have some devices registered before their parents have probed.
> If I grep for DTS with simple-bus and simple-mfd I get 802 matches.


This is good to know, thanks!

Rafael
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