Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 Dec 2012 14:28:36 +0000 | From | Lee Jones <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 01/12] regulator: gpio-regulator: Demote GPIO Regulator driver to start later |
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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?
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