From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tomasz.figa@gmail.com (Tomasz Figa) Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 15:46:41 +0200 Subject: [PATCH v6 4/8] ARM: Add .init_platform() callback to machine descriptor In-Reply-To: <1371774924-9224-5-git-send-email-tomasz.figa@gmail.com> References: <1371774924-9224-1-git-send-email-tomasz.figa@gmail.com> <1371774924-9224-5-git-send-email-tomasz.figa@gmail.com> Message-ID: <2503927.uZIubvXWLh@flatron> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org Hi Kukjin, On Friday 21 of June 2013 02:35:20 Tomasz Figa wrote: > Most ARM platforms have parts that should be initialized as early as > possible, which usually means as soon as memory management (kmalloc, > ioremap) starts to work, > > However, currently there is no appropriate callback in machine_desc > struct to use for such initialization and platforms tend to stuff things > up .init_irq() and .init_time() callbacks. > > Since all the DT-based platforms are going towards generic IRQ and time > initialization (using irqchip_init and clocksource_of_init) and current > code assumes that if custom callbacks are not provided in machine_desc > then generic ones should be used, this problem has become a bit more > inconvenient. > > This patch tries to solve this issue by introducing new callback called > .init_platform(), where any custom low level initialization of platform > can be done safely. > > Signed-off-by: Tomasz Figa > --- > arch/arm/include/asm/mach/arch.h | 1 + > arch/arm/kernel/irq.c | 3 +++ > 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+) Please disregard this patch when applying the series (if that happens). Best regards, Tomasz