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From: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel-bIcnvbaLZ9MEGnE8C9+IrQ@public.gmane.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] reset: socfpga: use arch_initcall for early initialization
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 11:03:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1412845410.6809.3.camel@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1412822646-11257-1-git-send-email-dinguyen-yzvPICuk2ABMcg4IHK0kFoH6Mc4MB0Vx@public.gmane.org>

Am Mittwoch, den 08.10.2014, 21:44 -0500 schrieb
dinguyen-yzvPICuk2ABMcg4IHK0kFoH6Mc4MB0Vx@public.gmane.org:
> From: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen-yzvPICuk2ABMcg4IHK0kFoH6Mc4MB0Vx@public.gmane.org>
> 
> There are certain drivers that are required to get loaded very early using
> arch_initcall. An example of such a driver is the SOCFPGA's FPGA bridge driver.
> This driver has to get loaded early because it needs to enable FPGA components
> that are connected to the bridge.
> 
> This FPGA bridge driver will using the reset controller API to toggle it's
> reset bits, thus, it needs the reset driver to be loaded as early as possible
> in order for it to get used properly.

Without knowing the details, this sounds like the wrong approach. Can't
the bridge driver return -EPROBE_DEFER until the reset controller is
available?

regards
Philipp

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-10-09  9:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-09  2:44 [PATCH] reset: socfpga: use arch_initcall for early initialization dinguyen
     [not found] ` <1412822646-11257-1-git-send-email-dinguyen-yzvPICuk2ABMcg4IHK0kFoH6Mc4MB0Vx@public.gmane.org>
2014-10-09  9:03   ` Philipp Zabel [this message]
     [not found]     ` <1412845410.6809.3.camel-bIcnvbaLZ9MEGnE8C9+IrQ@public.gmane.org>
2014-10-09 13:16       ` Dinh Nguyen
     [not found]         ` <54368AA2.9000104-yzvPICuk2ABMcg4IHK0kFoH6Mc4MB0Vx@public.gmane.org>
2014-10-09 13:28           ` Steffen Trumtrar
2014-10-09 14:57             ` atull
2014-10-09 15:19               ` Steffen Trumtrar
     [not found]                 ` <20141009151935.GK15799-bIcnvbaLZ9MEGnE8C9+IrQ@public.gmane.org>
2014-10-10 16:32                   ` atull
2014-10-14 18:45                     ` atull
2014-10-15 10:02                       ` Steffen Trumtrar
2014-10-15 13:53                         ` Dinh Nguyen
2014-10-18  9:22                     ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-10-12 14:30 ` Pavel Machek

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