| Date | Tue, 12 Jun 2012 09:13:52 +0100 | From | Lee Jones <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 07/14] mfd: Initialise the AB8500 driver at core_initcall time |
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On 11/06/12 22:03, Linus Walleij wrote: > On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Lee Jones<lee.jones@linaro.org> wrote: > >> The AB8500 is soon to have its own IRQ domain. For this to be useful >> the driver needs to be initialised earlier in the boot sequence. Here >> we move initialisation forward from arch_initcall to core_initcall time. > > I don't understand why using IRQ domain makes it necessary to > initialize the driver earlier in the init process. Please explain to me, > I need tutoring here.
Perhaps I need to invest some time into deferring each user's probe()s instead. Leave it with me I'll do some investigation.
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