Re: [PATCH] usb: misc: usb3503: Force late initialization

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 03:59:31PM +0530, Tushar Behera wrote:
> USB3503 chip needs to be reset after the USB PHY controller has been
> intiliazed, otherwise it is not detected as plugged in.

Why not?

> Currently there is no other way to ensure that USB3503 chip is probed
> after the USB PHY has been initialized, hence the last resort.

Are you sure that deferred probing doesn't solve this issue?

> Signed-off-by: Tushar Behera <tushar.behera@linaro.org>
> ---
>  drivers/usb/misc/usb3503.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/misc/usb3503.c b/drivers/usb/misc/usb3503.c
> index a31641e..ad8368d 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/misc/usb3503.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/misc/usb3503.c
> @@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ static int __init usb3503_init(void)
>  
>  	return 0;
>  }
> -module_init(usb3503_init);
> +late_initcall(usb3503_init);

I really hate stuff like this, that is what the change to the driver
core for the deferred probe work was for, could you please look into
that instead?

thanks,

greg k-h