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From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 04/22] of: add function to allow probing a device from a OF node
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2015 16:28:28 +0200
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On Friday, October 23, 2015 08:54:19 AM Mark Brown wrote:
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> On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 03:03:37PM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> > On 22 October 2015 at 03:06, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net> wrote:
> 
> > > Same question as from Greg: How does a subsystem know whether or not to use
> > > this function?
> 
> > Maybe I don't understand the comment, but as the commit message says,
> > subsystems can use this when looking up resources for drivers. Or you
> > mean that this information should be in the API docs?
> 
> I'm pretty sure what he's suggesting here is changing to "should always"
> (ie, explain the situations when a subsystem would do this, including
> decision criteria if it's optional).

Right.

Thanks,
Rafael