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From: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
To: Aisheng Dong <aisheng.dong@nxp.com>
Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>, dl-linux-imx <linux-imx@nxp.com>,
	Sascha Hauer <kernel@pengutronix.de>,
	Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>,
	"linux-clk@vger.kernel.org" <linux-clk@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org"
	<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] clk: imx: scu: remove the calling of device_is_bound
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2020 17:44:48 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADVatmNW6L4xH99DVDK_T2y-DcDZQ0YtdpyQvTEK5kGRPOV9Pw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AM6PR04MB49667ACF83F057E5591E676080E00@AM6PR04MB4966.eurprd04.prod.outlook.com>

On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 3:30 PM Aisheng Dong <aisheng.dong@nxp.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2020 9:08 PM
> >
> > Hi Dong,
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 07:43:02PM +0800, Dong Aisheng wrote:
> > > The device_is_bound() is unvisable to drivers when built as modules.
> > > It's also not aimed to be used by drivers according to Greg K.H.
> > > Let's remove it from clk-scu driver and find another way to do proper
> > > driver loading sequence.
> >
> > Greg was asking to use device_link for this issue. Have you tried something like
> > the following: (untested as I dont have the hardware).
>
> It can't work as expected because it requires supplier devices (scu pd) to be probed first.
> and if scu pd was probed first, then there're already no issues.

hmm.. thats odd. I was expecting that if "scu-pd" has not registered
then device_link_add() will return NULL and then imx_clk_scu_init()
will return -EPROBE_DEFER.


-- 
Regards
Sudip

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-19 17:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-19 11:43 [PATCH 1/1] clk: imx: scu: remove the calling of device_is_bound Dong Aisheng
2020-11-19 13:08 ` Sudip Mukherjee
2020-11-19 15:30   ` Aisheng Dong
2020-11-19 17:44     ` Sudip Mukherjee [this message]
2020-11-24 10:28       ` Aisheng Dong
2020-11-24 10:33 ` Aisheng Dong
2020-11-30 13:54 ` Shawn Guo

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