Merge tag 'driver-core-5.5-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core

Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the "big" set of driver core patches for 5.5-rc1

  There's a few minor cleanups and fixes in here, but the majority of
  the patches in here fall into two buckets:

   - debugfs api cleanups and fixes

   - driver core device link support for boot dependancy issues

  The debugfs api cleanups are working to slowly refactor the debugfs
  apis so that it is even harder to use incorrectly. That work has been
  happening for the past few kernel releases and will continue over
  time, it's a long-term project/goal

  The driver core device link support missed 5.4 by just a bit, so it's
  been sitting and baking for many months now. It's from Saravana Kannan
  to help resolve the problems that DT-based systems have at boot time
  with dependancy graphs and kernel modules. Turns out that no one has
  actually tried to build a generic arm64 kernel with loads of modules
  and have it "just work" for a variety of platforms (like a distro
  kernel). The big problem turned out to be a lack of dependency
  information between different areas of DT entries, and the work here
  resolves that problem and now allows devices to boot properly, and
  quicker than a monolith kernel.

  All of these patches have been in linux-next for a long time with no
  reported issues"

* tag 'driver-core-5.5-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (68 commits)
  tracing: Remove unnecessary DEBUG_FS dependency
  of: property: Add device link support for interrupt-parent, dmas and -gpio(s)
  debugfs: Fix !DEBUG_FS debugfs_create_automount
  of: property: Add device link support for "iommu-map"
  of: property: Fix the semantics of of_is_ancestor_of()
  i2c: of: Populate fwnode in of_i2c_get_board_info()
  drivers: base: Fix Kconfig indentation
  firmware_loader: Fix labels with comma for builtin firmware
  driver core: Allow device link operations inside sync_state()
  driver core: platform: Declare ret variable only once
  cpu-topology: declare parse_acpi_topology in <linux/arch_topology.h>
  crypto: hisilicon: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions
  driver core: platform: use the correct callback type for bus_find_device
  firmware_class: make firmware caching configurable
  driver core: Clarify documentation for fwnode_operations.add_links()
  mailbox: tegra: Fix superfluous IRQ error message
  net: caif: Fix debugfs on 64-bit platforms
  mac80211: Use debugfs_create_xul() helper
  media: c8sectpfe: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions
  of: property: Add device link support for iommus, mboxes and io-channels
  ...

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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst
index d05d531b4ec9..6d421694d98e 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst
@@ -127,6 +127,7 @@ parameter is applicable::
 	NET	Appropriate network support is enabled.
 	NUMA	NUMA support is enabled.
 	NFS	Appropriate NFS support is enabled.
+	OF	Devicetree is enabled.
 	OSS	OSS sound support is enabled.
 	PV_OPS	A paravirtualized kernel is enabled.
 	PARIDE	The ParIDE (parallel port IDE) subsystem is enabled.
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 1fda057434c3..b25b47a47acd 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -3240,6 +3240,12 @@
 			This can be set from sysctl after boot.
 			See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst for details.
 
+	of_devlink	[OF, KNL] Create device links between consumer and
+			supplier devices by scanning the devictree to infer the
+			consumer/supplier relationships.  A consumer device
+			will not be probed until all the supplier devices have
+			probed successfully.
+
 	ohci1394_dma=early	[HW] enable debugging via the ohci1394 driver.
 			See Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt for more
 			info.