From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tomeu.vizoso@collabora.com (Tomeu Vizoso) Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2015 09:11:23 +0200 Subject: [PATCH v3 01/18] platform: delay OF device-driver matches until late_initcall In-Reply-To: References: <1438870315-18689-1-git-send-email-tomeu.vizoso@collabora.com> <1438870315-18689-2-git-send-email-tomeu.vizoso@collabora.com> Message-ID: To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On 6 August 2015 at 22:19, Rob Herring wrote: > On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 9:11 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >> Delay matches of platform devices with OF nodes until late_initcall, >> when we are sure that all built-in drivers have been registered already. >> This is needed to prevent deferred probes because of some drivers not >> having registered yet. >> >> The reason why only platform devices are delayed is that some other >> devices are expected to be probed earlier than late_initcall, for >> example, the system PNP driver needs to probe its devices in >> fs_initcall. >> >> Additionally, only platform devices with OF nodes are delayed because >> some machines may depend on oter platform devices being registered at >> specific times. > > How do we know that these probes occur before the unused clocks and > regulators are turned off? Just getting lucky (as is deferred probe)? > Can we do this one level earlier so we have a level left to do things > after probe. Those are already late_initcall_sync so I guess we're fine. Thanks, Tomeu > Rob > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo at vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/