Re: [RFC PATCH v3] driver core: hold dev's parent lock when needed

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue May 29 2018 - 12:59:29 EST


On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 12:34:29AM +0800, Martin Liu wrote:
> SOC have internal I/O buses that can't be proved for devices. The
> devices on the buses can be accessed directly without additinal
> configuration required. This type of bus is represented as
> "simple-bus". In some platforms, we name "soc" with "simple-bus"
> attribute and many devices are hooked under it desribed in DT
> (device tree).

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Hint, I don't apply "RFC" patches as obviously the author does not think
it is good enough to be merged :)