Re: [PATCH] i2c: exynos5: register driver early in subsys initcall to avoid probe defer

[Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>]

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Hi Marek,

> This problem is known for ages, there were number of attempts to add

Yes, I heard of it, too.

> support for deferred probe or solve the problem of deferred UDC driver
> probe, but none got accepted so far:

Then they need to be worked on. AFAIK the rejection is based on
implementation details, not because the feature itself is not wanted,
or?

> Till now it worked somehow for boards with older i2c bus drivers, which
> were registered in subsys initcall. Boards, which use newer i2c bus drivers
> cannot be used with usb gadgets compiled-in.

Yes, because the above issue needs to be *fixed*, not workarounded. You
still have the option to carry your patch out-of-tree if fixing the
issue is not an option for you.

We already had problems here when someone tried to revert
subsys_initcall to module_init because of other dependency issues on
another particular board. So, the pain should really go where the fixing
is needed.

I hope you understand,

   Wolfram


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