On Mon, 10 Dec 2012, Mark Brown wrote: > On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 08:55:50AM +0000, Lee Jones wrote: > > > The normal course of action would be to defer the MMCI driver too, > > but these IOS level-shifter regulators aren't present on all > > platforms, so deferring until one is found would be incorrect. > > > So the best solution is to demote the GPIO Regulator driver, so > > it starts later than the TC35892 GPIO controller, which is also > > configured to start at subsys_initcall() time, but before deferred > > probing time, which starts at late_initcall(), after many of the > > drivers requiring these regulators would have already started. > > This really isn't a good solution, especially not for a system that's DT > based - on a DT system we can tell if there should be a GPIO present so > we should be able to defer only when there's something that might > provide the GPIO later on.
Understood, but what's the solution for non-DT systems? -- Lee Jones Linaro ST-Ericsson Landing Team Lead Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
