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Add a helper function to be used when reusing the device-tree node of
another device.
It is fairly common for drivers to reuse the device-tree node of a
parent (or other ancestor) device when creating class or bus devices
(e.g. gpio chips, i2c adapters, iio chips, spi masters, serdev, phys,
usb root hubs). But reusing a device-tree node may cause problems if the
new device is later probed as for example driver core would currently
attempt to reinitialise an already active associated pinmux
configuration.
Other potential issues include the platform-bus code unconditionally
dropping the device-tree node reference in its device destructor,
reinitialisation of other bus-managed resources such as clocks, and the
recently added DMA-setup in driver core.
Note that for most examples above this is currently not an issue as the
devices are never probed, but this is a problem for the USB bus which
has recently gained device-tree support. This was discovered and
worked-around in a rather ad-hoc fashion by commit
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power | ||
regmap | ||
test | ||
attribute_container.c | ||
base.h | ||
bus.c | ||
cacheinfo.c | ||
class.c | ||
component.c | ||
container.c | ||
core.c | ||
cpu.c | ||
dd.c | ||
devcoredump.c | ||
devres.c | ||
devtmpfs.c | ||
dma-coherent.c | ||
dma-contiguous.c | ||
dma-mapping.c | ||
driver.c | ||
firmware_class.c | ||
firmware.c | ||
hypervisor.c | ||
init.c | ||
isa.c | ||
Kconfig | ||
Makefile | ||
map.c | ||
memory.c | ||
module.c | ||
node.c | ||
pinctrl.c | ||
platform-msi.c | ||
platform.c | ||
property.c | ||
soc.c | ||
syscore.c | ||
topology.c | ||
transport_class.c |