Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 5 Jan 2016 13:44:52 +0000 | From | Mark Brown <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] regulator: mt6397: convert to arch_initcall |
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On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 04:10:43PM +0800, Yingjoe Chen wrote:
> These changes are related to pinctrl init order patch. The related > discussion is here: > http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mediatek/2015-December/003298.html
So this is just to cut down on probe deferrals? Sorry but as you'll see from the discussion in that thread I'm really not enthusiastic about taking such patches. Trying to use initcall ordering is a hack we're moving towards removing, isn't very robust and makes it harder to convince people that it's worth doing anything to really improve things.
> I think Henry use arch_initcall because that's what pinctrl patch was > using. In this case, we should use subsys_initcall for all these.
But why? This sort of random unexplained level picking is part of the problem... [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |