On Thu, 2013-12-19 at 06:30 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

This would work only if we can probe the devices behind the external
bus controller before the controller itsef has been set up, since
the initialization order can depend on a number of things but not
the bus hierarchy. It will also work if the code setting up the
bus controller can be guaranteed to run before we call
of_platform_populate for the regular devices, which is probably
the best solution here.

There has been no activity for 3 weeks. Could we resume the series?