Since "/firmware" does not have its own "compatible" property as it's
just collection of nodes representing firmware interface, it's sub-nodes
are not populated during system initialization.

Currently different firmware drivers search the /firmware/ node and
populate the sub-node devices selectively. Instead we can populate
the /firmware/ node during init to avoid more drivers continuing to
populate the devices selectively.

To generalize the solution this patch populates the /firmware/ node
explicitly from of_platform_default_populate_init().

Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <redacted>
---
 drivers/of/platform.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/of/platform.c b/drivers/of/platform.c
index ac15d0e3d27d..3a213a6aee89 100644
--- a/drivers/of/platform.c
+++ b/drivers/of/platform.c

@@ -515,6 +515,10 @@ static int __init of_platform_default_populate_init(void)
 			of_platform_device_create(node, NULL, NULL);
 	}
 
+	node = of_find_node_by_path("/firmware");
+	if (node)
+		of_platform_populate(node, NULL, NULL, NULL);
+
 	/* Populate everything else. */
 	of_platform_default_populate(NULL, NULL, NULL);
 

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2.7.4