[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] dm: core: allow drivers to refuse to bind

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Wed May 4 21:31:59 CEST 2016


Hi Stephen,

On 4 May 2016 at 12:57, Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
> On 04/19/2016 04:19 PM, Stephen Warren wrote:
>>
>> From: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>
>>
>> In some cases, drivers may not want to bind to a device. Allow bind() to
>> return -ENODEV in this case, and don't treat this as an error. This can
>> be useful in situations where some information source other than the DT
>> node's main status property indicates whether the device should be
>> enabled, for example other DT properties might indicate this, or the
>> driver might query non-DT sources such as system fuses or a version number
>> register.
>
>
> Simon, this series is assigned to you in patchwork. Are you the right person
> to apply it?

Yes. but not for this release, right?

Regards,
Simon


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