of: Keep track of populated platform devices

In "Device Tree powered" systems, platform devices are usually massively
populated with of_platform_populate() call, executed at some level of
initcalls, either by generic architecture or by platform-specific code.

There are situations though where certain devices must be created (and
bound with drivers) before all the others. This presents a challenge,
as devices created explicitly would be created again by
of_platform_populate().

This patch tries to solve that issue in a generic way, adding a
"populated" flag for a DT node description. Subsequent
of_platform_populate() will skip such nodes (and its children) in
a similar way to the non-available ones.

This patch also adds of_platform_depopulate() as an operation
complementary to the _populate() one. It removes a platform or an amba
device populated from the Device Tree, together with its all children
(leaving, however, devices without associated of_node untouched)
clearing the "populated" flag on the way.

Signed-off-by: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/of_platform.h b/include/linux/of_platform.h
index 05cb4a92825..b1010eeaac0 100644
--- a/include/linux/of_platform.h
+++ b/include/linux/of_platform.h
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ extern int of_platform_populate(struct device_node *root,
 				const struct of_device_id *matches,
 				const struct of_dev_auxdata *lookup,
 				struct device *parent);
+extern int of_platform_depopulate(struct device *parent);
 #else
 static inline int of_platform_populate(struct device_node *root,
 					const struct of_device_id *matches,
@@ -80,6 +81,10 @@ static inline int of_platform_populate(struct device_node *root,
 {
 	return -ENODEV;
 }
+static inline int of_platform_depopulate(struct device *parent)
+{
+	return -ENODEV;
+}
 #endif
 
 #endif	/* _LINUX_OF_PLATFORM_H */