On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 05:09:45PM +0530, Naveen Krishna Chatradhi wrote: > exynos_drm_init() does probing of various drivers like dp_panel, > hdmi, fimd, mixer, etc in an order and finally binds them together. > > Some of the drm devices (Eg: dp_panel) try to do regulator_get() > and enable few supplies during their probe. > Chances are that, these devices may get probed before the respective > supply/PMIC is hooked. In such cases, dp_panel would continue with > "dummy regulator". Which is not what the system wants. > > Lets give the core connectivity and regulators modules some time > to hookup the supplies before Exynos DRM devices comes into picture. > > Signed-off-by: Naveen Krishna Chatradhi <ch.naveen at samsung.com> > --- > This change is proposed after > 1. Discussing with I2C/SPI & DMA subsystem maintainers and Others > @ https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/5/9/333 > Trying to change the I2C, SPI and DMA drivers as subsys_initcall() > Which was strictly opposed, as a flaw was found in DRM subsystem. > > 2. -EPROBE_DEFER won't work well with the current sequency of > platform_driver_register()s in exynos_drm_init()
Then this is the problem that you need to fix. If the driver doesn't handle -EPROBE_DEFER properly then that means the driver is broken. No amount of initcall ordering can fix this for you. Thierry -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 836 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/attachments/20140521/29d3f98d/attachment.sig>
