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From: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>
To: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.jf.intel.com>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
	Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.jf.intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>,
	spear-devel <spear-devel@list.st.com>
Subject: Re: [resend][PATCH 01/16] dw_dmac: call .probe after we have a device in place
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 04:28:26 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130112122825.GW19691@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130109180427.GA13897@intel.com>

On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 08:04:28PM +0200, Mika Westerberg wrote:
> 
> If the platform device is not yet created (like it might be when it is
> enumerated from ACPI for example), the probe fails completely. Certainly
> not the situation we want.
> 
> Calling platform_driver_register() handles both cases properly.
Yes this is fix for that kind of problem. But the main issue I am concerned
about is that devices should have created much before drivers started loading.
Obviosuly due to SPI/DMA dependencies we have to do this.

--
~Vinod

  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-12 12:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-07 12:54 dw_dmac patches Andy Shevchenko
2013-01-08 15:54 ` Vinod Koul
2013-01-09  8:16   ` [resend][PATCH 00/16] dw_dmac related patchset Andy Shevchenko
2013-01-09  8:17     ` [resend][PATCH 01/16] dw_dmac: call .probe after we have a device in place Andy Shevchenko
2013-01-09 13:47       ` Vinod Koul
2013-01-09 14:56         ` Andy Shevchenko
2013-01-09 15:38           ` Vinod Koul
2013-01-09 18:04             ` Mika Westerberg
2013-01-12 12:28               ` Vinod Koul [this message]
2013-01-10  8:34             ` Viresh Kumar
2013-01-12 12:30               ` Vinod Koul
2013-01-09  8:17     ` [resend][PATCH 02/16] dw_dmac: absence of pdata isn't critical when autocfg is set Andy Shevchenko
2013-01-09  8:17     ` [resend][PATCH 03/16] dmaengine: introduce is_slave_xfer function Andy Shevchenko
2013-01-09 13:50       ` Vinod Koul
2013-01-09 14:19         ` Viresh Kumar
2013-01-09 14:58           ` Andy Shevchenko
2013-01-09 15:10             ` Vinod Koul
2013-01-09 15:51               ` Andy Shevchenko
2013-01-09  8:17     ` [resend][PATCH 04/16] dma: at_hdmac: check direction properly for cyclic transfers Andy Shevchenko
2013-01-09  8:17     ` [resend][PATCH 05/16] dma: dw_dmac: check direction properly in dw_dma_cyclic_prep Andy Shevchenko
2013-01-09  8:17     ` [resend][PATCH 06/16] dma: ep93xx_dma: reuse is_slave_xfer helper Andy Shevchenko
2013-01-09  8:17     ` [resend][PATCH 07/16] dma: ipu_idmac: " Andy Shevchenko
2013-01-09  8:17     ` [resend][PATCH 08/16] dma: ste_dma40: " Andy Shevchenko
2013-01-09  8:17     ` [resend][PATCH 09/16] dw_dmac: store direction in the custom channel structure Andy Shevchenko
2013-01-09  8:17     ` [resend][PATCH 10/16] dw_dmac: make usage of dw_dma_slave optional Andy Shevchenko
2013-01-09  8:17     ` [resend][PATCH 11/16] dw_dmac: backlink to dw_dma in dw_dma_chan is superfluous Andy Shevchenko
2013-01-09 14:24       ` Vinod Koul
2013-01-09 15:02         ` Andy Shevchenko
2013-01-09 15:11           ` Vinod Koul
2013-01-09  8:17     ` [resend][PATCH 12/16] dw_dmac: check for mapping errors Andy Shevchenko
2013-01-09  8:17     ` [resend][PATCH 13/16] dw_dmac: remove redundant check Andy Shevchenko
2013-01-09  8:17     ` [resend][PATCH 14/16] dw_dmac: update tx_node_active in dwc_do_single_block Andy Shevchenko
2013-01-09  8:17     ` [resend][PATCH 15/16] dma: dw_dmac: add dwc_chan_pause and dwc_chan_resume Andy Shevchenko
2013-01-09  8:17     ` [resend][PATCH 16/16] dma: dw_dmac: clear suspend bit during termination Andy Shevchenko
2013-01-09 14:18       ` Vinod Koul
2013-01-09 15:07         ` Andy Shevchenko
2013-01-09 15:44     ` [resend][PATCH 00/16] dw_dmac related patchset Vinod Koul
2013-01-10  8:28       ` Andy Shevchenko
2013-01-09 11:26   ` dw_dmac patches Andy Shevchenko
2013-01-11 12:01   ` Andy Shevchenko

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