On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 10:48:11AM -0400, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 08:06:43PM +0530, Jagan Teki wrote:
> > On 30 September 2014 18:41, David Müller (ELSOFT AG)
> > <d.muel...@elsoft.ch> wrote:
> > > Jagan Teki wrote:
> > >> On 30 September 2014 16:53, David Müller <d.muel...@elsoft.ch> wrote:
> > >>> +int board_early_init_f(void)
> > >>> +{
> > >>> + spi_init_f();
> > >>
> > >> Why you need to do this, spi_init_f is trying to call from
> > >> arch/powerpc/lib/board.c
> > >> any specific reason, I couldn't understand the fix you mentioned on
> > >> the commit body.
> > >
> > > There is an EEPROM attached to the SPI channel containing vital board
> > > data. Calling spi_init_f() from arch/powerpc/lib/board.c will be too late.
> >
> > Sorry, this looks an other issue - but anyway we're trying to remove
> > spi_init* stuff
> > from drivers/spi/* in future and I don't think it's a good idea to use that.
>
> It's also not a good idea to say that we'll leave a board broken until
> something better comes along. There should be a comment added to the
> code here making it clear _why_ we need this done early.And again, for the record, I wanted to _fix_ things today so we can clean them up tomorrow, rather than keep something broken so we can fix it later. -- Tom
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