On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 10:30:36AM -0800, Brian Norris wrote:

I expect the same sort of problem shows up plenty of other places. I
don't think many people use CONFIG_OF_DYNAMIC, so the effects of these
failures probably aren't felt by many.

Also, there's a quite-relevant todo item in
Documentation/devicetree/todo.txt:

=== CONFIG_OF_DYNAMIC ===
...
- Document node lifecycle for CONFIG_OF_DYNAMIC

:)

Brian