Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 8 Sep 2010 17:55:27 +0100 | From | Mark Brown <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] spi/spi_s3c64xx: Move to subsys_initcall() |
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On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 10:44:32AM -0600, Grant Likely wrote: > On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 05:22:51PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> > Doing dependencies could get pretty complicated, especially once you > > handle optional dependencies ("is this missing because it didn't probe > > yet or because it's just not there?") so it's not entirely clear to me > > that it's worth the hassle.
> I think it might be doable. I had a similar problem with Ethernet > MACs and PHYs where the PHY was on a completely separate bus from the > MAC with zero guarantees on probe order. I had some code that made it > simple to use a bus notifier to defer MAC initialization until the > required phy turned up and was probed. I eventually abandoned it > because accessing the PHY could be deferred until .ndo_open() time. > However, it would be easy to resurrect, and might be a reasonable > solution. At the very least it is worth an investigation.
If you've got stuff that'd be great - ASoC also has a deferral mechanism implemented due to this song and dance. Like I say, the main reason I've never looked at it myself is that it's never been sufficiently much of a practical problem for me to justify the effort.
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