Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Dec 2015 17:22:12 +0000 | From | Mark Brown <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: mediatek: convert to arch_initcall |
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On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 04:11:47PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote: > On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@chromium.org> wrote:
> > Move pinctrl initialization earlier in boot so that real devices can find > > their pctldev without probe deferring. > (...) > > -module_init(mtk_pinctrl_init); > > +arch_initcall(mtk_pinctrl_init);
> So I see why you're doing this (because of wanting to avoid nasty boot > probe deferrals, right?) and I'm going to apply it, because the work > with probe ordering is still in the works, but I'd like some general > ARM people to come in with opinions.
I really don't think we should be applying this sort of stuff unless things are actively broken right now. It's a bit of a rabbit hole we could spend a long time going down tweaking things for different systems in the same way that tweaking the link order can be and it masks the underlying issues. [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |