From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755589Ab2GEJpp (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jul 2012 05:45:45 -0400 Received: from opensource.wolfsonmicro.com ([80.75.67.52]:57512 "EHLO opensource.wolfsonmicro.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754227Ab2GEJpn (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jul 2012 05:45:43 -0400 Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 10:45:41 +0100 From: Mark Brown To: Lee Jones Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linus.walleij@stericsson.com, arnd@arndb.de, sameo@linux.intel.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] mfd: Fix runtime warning caused by duplicate device registration Message-ID: <20120705094541.GK4111@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> References: <1341316788-12730-1-git-send-email-lee.jones@linaro.org> <20120703123552.GC25995@sirena.org.uk> <4FF2EEA1.6080204@linaro.org> <20120703132447.GN29030@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> <4FF2F82D.9080507@linaro.org> <20120703142123.GQ29030@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> <4FF54406.3000307@linaro.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="tez2gqrut5pn4jhH" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4FF54406.3000307@linaro.org> X-Cookie: You're at the end of the road again. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --tez2gqrut5pn4jhH Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 08:36:38AM +0100, Lee Jones wrote: > On 03/07/12 15:21, Mark Brown wrote: > >This doesn't explain any of the issues, it just says that they exist. > >My best guess would be that at least some of the issue is due to > >instantiating the MFD cells from the device tree but it's hard to say > >clearly. > I'm guessing Arnd's email answered some of the questions you had. > Let me know of you would like me to explain it in any greater > detail. No, frankly. It was just a general "why might we put things in DT" answer which (especially given what you say below) isn't related to the issue at all. > By the way, this patch has nothing to do with registering these > devices when DT is enabled. The code already does that. This is a > bug fix, to stop multiple registration of the ab8500 when DT is > _not_ enabled. Really? It seems really surprising that adding more DT support to the MFD core would have any bearing on something like this... --tez2gqrut5pn4jhH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJP9WI+AAoJEBus8iNuMP3dgeYP+gJSvQ82I/KFX4NPcox9sdhL tihOkE/Hl60vlRx9m7vSV52k5HBvt5ugYuQynkDtqR0H1JQGKgZoduGhCUocKZRS 6M4gopgq64RVyhbgqZyyB99jxKE6kzZvxOBKF5fQXQijnCYCMrDpfO5zwxIZ5X/k oiG9m738d4JtcFiCQA8DVmy+MZnv7Px3Iay9Nysx2Onrew+SWFRzG4dEB9BNj60b T0zqWkSJWSEsdJztOHPuFpVE9ae656oAZ3HssF71oYQwo7xEIvhDYKpoGZsPbMxh i40g9PRsHiklXlArPAA0Nva8sOC6XFUvIM8PoVFmLqeBTE3DGD3EKjYCD0yUaycH yq6JvrqqSZwz4PEPFrgUPZJot+1r+7rMQBl+Omeh+k528d2nN+R2iqcZLL5P4PrL xb5uMImjJXzSnF/TqZld7Hr6WLJaXWOwfoGRkYKUwbQIn4469ZLOxsOMwYLo+PDh eXwosHcO3L+NkXtjQ6BorV1fsqz2Wa6GwSiG3gezODdW8BvTGi/7MFxqvS7UvTm1 2xvhWEZulyC8pkob70lh/zxVhRsz6+LVhnlmSb0BOMCinQbObGBOL35x31e1aGUa ti5kTUEY/wfYXa3t0rOHrxj/S3rxmuOGY97KF9DMv6kCwpB1iQERmfuUnAMJxjJv IkOnobKsDwFeldHg+Ag4 =4cij -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --tez2gqrut5pn4jhH--