From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: lee.jones@linaro.org (Lee Jones)
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 14:28:36 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 01/12] regulator: gpio-regulator: Demote GPIO Regulator
 driver to start later
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On Mon, 10 Dec 2012, Mark Brown wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 08:55:50AM +0000, Lee Jones wrote:
> 
> > The normal course of action would be to defer the MMCI driver too,
> > but these IOS level-shifter regulators aren't present on all
> > platforms, so deferring until one is found would be incorrect.
> 
> > So the best solution is to demote the GPIO Regulator driver, so
> > it starts later than the TC35892 GPIO controller, which is also
> > configured to start at subsys_initcall() time, but before deferred
> > probing time, which starts at late_initcall(), after many of the
> > drivers requiring these regulators would have already started.
> 
> This really isn't a good solution, especially not for a system that's DT
> based - on a DT system we can tell if there should be a GPIO present so
> we should be able to defer only when there's something that might
> provide the GPIO later on.

Understood, but what's the solution for non-DT systems?

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Lee Jones
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