[U-Boot] [PATCH V2 1/2] dm: allow setting driver_data before/during bind

[Simon Glass]

On 11 May 2016 at 15:26, Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
> From: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>
>
> This will allow a driver's bind function to use the driver data. One
> example is the Tegra186 GPIO driver, which instantiates child devices
> for each of its GPIO ports, yet supports two different HW instances each
> with a different set of ports, and identified by the udevice_id .data
> field.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>
> ---
> v2:
> * Introduce a separate function for the new functionality, rather than
> modifying device_bind().
>
> This patch is a dependency for the upcoming Tegra186 GPIO driver too.
> ---
>  doc/driver-model/README.txt  | 23 ++++++++++++++---------
>  drivers/core/device.c        | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++---
>  drivers/core/lists.c         |  4 ++--
>  include/dm/device-internal.h | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  4 files changed, 62 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

Thanks.

Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>