Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Nov 2011 11:19:19 -0800 | From | Tony Lindgren <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 5/5] clk: export tree topology and clk data via sysfs |
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* Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> [111123 10:34]: > On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 10:55:19AM -0800, Tony Lindgren wrote: > > * Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> [111123 09:31]: > > > > Keep the clk API as a fundamental thing which should be initialized early > > > so we don't have to invent new clk APIs to get around its unavailability. > > > What else are you aware of that is really needed early for clocks other > > than clockevent? > > If nothing else we'd have to resolve all the device probe ordering > issues (Grant's patches seem a bit stalled) and convert all the systems > using the API to handle deferring probes until their clocks appear. > Using an early initcall of some kind would help with that but it does > seem like a lot of trouble and I'd expect it'll end up getting forced in > on most systems anyway.
Yes the ordering depends on the system. In any case, initcalls are not super early compared to setup_timer.
Tony
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