These "nvmem-cells" platform devices never get probed because there's no platform driver for it and it's never used anywhere else. So it's a waste of memory. These devices also cause fw_devlink to block nvmem consumers of "nvmem-cells" partition from probing because the supplier device never probes. So stop creating platform devices for nvmem-cells partitions to avoid wasting memory and to avoid blocking probing of consumers. Reported-by: Maxim Kiselev <bigunclemax@gmail.com> Fixes: bcdf0315a61a ("mtd: call of_platform_populate() for MTD partitions") Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com> Tested-by: Maksim Kiselev <bigunclemax@gmail.com> Tested-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org> Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be> Tested-by: Luca Weiss <luca.weiss@fairphone.com> # qcom/sm7225-fairphone-fp4 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230207014207.1678715-13-saravanak@google.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel ============ 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.
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