Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Jun 2016 12:42:35 +0100 | From | Mark Brown <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH] regulator: introduce boot protection flag |
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On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 11:34:25AM +0800, Pingbo Wen wrote: > On Wednesday, June 15, 2016 09:32 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> > Having the consumer driver know that it's "critical" seems wrong since > > different systems may have different ideas about that, it's probably > > better to hook this in with the device model so that when the device > > finishes probing that kicks things off.
> That will imply the protection would be end when the specific device has > probed, and consumers should take their place at the same time. But > there have some other devices, which will set the consumer in a IRQ > event, or after some other events, can't be covered.
I don't understand what this means, sorry.
> We can set the protection flag easily, but it's hard to tell whether a > consumer is well initialized, the end of protection, since regulator > consumer is not initialized within one call.
If the driver is not initializing itself during probe the driver is doing something wrong and needs to be fixed anyway. [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |