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

[Simon Glass]

+Tom Rini

Hi Stephen,

On 4 May 2016 at 13:46, Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
> 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.

Sorry, I didn't know that. Given the core nature of this patch I would
rather wait, and apply it next week. Let me know if you disagree.

Regards,
Simon