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Sometimes, more than one (generally two) device can point to the same fwnode. However, only one device is set as the fwnode's device (fwnode->dev) and can be looked up from the fwnode. Typically, only one of these devices actually have a driver and actually probe. If we create device links for all these devices, then the suppliers' of these devices (with the same fwnode) will never get a sync_state() call because one of their consumer devices will never probe (because they don't have a driver). So, create device links only for the device that is considered as the fwnode's device. One such example of this is the PCI bridge platform_device and the corresponding pci_bus device. Both these devices will have the same fwnode. It's the platform_device that is registered first and is set as the fwnode's device. Also the platform_device is the one that actually probes. Without this patch none of the suppliers of a PCI bridge platform_device would get a sync_state() callback. Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Cc: linux-pci@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200321045448.15192-1-saravanak@google.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.