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Date:   Mon, 27 Mar 2023 11:54:01 +0300
From:   Ivan Bornyakov <i.bornyakov@metrotek.ru>
To:     Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
Cc:     Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com>,
        Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>,
        Pengutronix Kernel Team <kernel@pengutronix.de>,
        Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com>,
        NXP Linux Team <linux-imx@nxp.com>,
        Wolfram Sang <wsa@kernel.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] treewide: Fix instantiation of devices in DT overlays
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Hi, Shawn!

On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 11:02:13AM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote:
> + Ivan
> 
> On Fri, Mar 24, 2023 at 10:30:39AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > When loading a DT overlay that creates a device, the device is not
> > instantiated, unless the DT overlay is unloaded and reloaded again.
> > 
> > Saravana explains:
> >   Basically for all overlays (I hope the function is only used for
> >   overlays) we assume all nodes are NOT devices until they actually
> >   get added as a device.
> > 
> > Based on a patch by Saravana Kannan, which covered only platform and spi
> > devices.
> > 
> > Fixes: 4a032827daa89350 ("of: property: Simplify of_link_to_phandle()")
> > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAGETcx_+rhHvaC_HJXGrr5_WAd2+k5f=rWYnkCZ6z5bGX-wj4w@mail.gmail.com
> > Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
> > Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
> > ---
> > v2:
> >   - Add Acked-by,
> >   - Drop RFC.
> > ---
> >  drivers/bus/imx-weim.c    | 1 +
> >  drivers/i2c/i2c-core-of.c | 1 +
> >  drivers/of/dynamic.c      | 1 +
> >  drivers/of/platform.c     | 1 +
> >  drivers/spi/spi.c         | 1 +
> >  5 files changed, 5 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/bus/imx-weim.c b/drivers/bus/imx-weim.c
> > index 36d42484142aede2..898e23a4231400fa 100644
> > --- a/drivers/bus/imx-weim.c
> > +++ b/drivers/bus/imx-weim.c
> > @@ -329,6 +329,7 @@ static int of_weim_notify(struct notifier_block *nb, unsigned long action,
> >  				 "Failed to setup timing for '%pOF'\n", rd->dn);
> >  
> >  		if (!of_node_check_flag(rd->dn, OF_POPULATED)) {
> > +			rd->dn->fwnode.flags &= ~FWNODE_FLAG_NOT_DEVICE;
> >  			if (!of_platform_device_create(rd->dn, NULL, &pdev->dev)) {
> >  				dev_err(&pdev->dev,
> >  					"Failed to create child device '%pOF'\n",
> 
> Ivan, so you were aware of that the device is not instantiated before
> this change?
> 

I was not aware of that, thanks for warning me.
Will test in the near future.