[U-Boot] [RFC PATCH 17/22] dm: Expand and improve the device lifecycle docs

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Fri May 30 17:12:12 CEST 2014


Hi Jon,

On 27 May 2014 11:37, Jon Loeliger <loeliger at gmail.com> wrote:
>> +2. U-Boot scans through top-level nodes in the the device tree. It looks
>> +at the compatible string in each node and uses the of_match part of the
>> +U_BOOT_DRIVER() structure to find the right driver for each node. It then
>
> Why is the scan only on the "top level"?  My GPIO nodes are, for example,
> under an SOC node.

Why? Do you have an SOC driver?

>
> Thanks,
> jdl
>


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