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

[Stephen Warren]

On 05/04/2016 01:31 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
> 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?

Patch 2 in the series (which depends on this patch) fixes a bug for 
Tegra boards with LCD panels. Admittedly it appears to be only cosmetic 
(an error message is printed at boot), but "it's a bug" seems to satisfy 
the requirement to apply it for this release.