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

[Stephen Warren]

On 05/04/2016 01:48 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
> +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.

I suppose that it's been broken long enough that another release won't 
matter.

Was my explanation of the bug in the description of patch 2/2 not clear 
in some way?