From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>,
linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>,
Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@samsung.com>,
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 1/2] drivers: base: add support for registering notifier about deferred probe
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 14:51:39 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160414215139.GA11535@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160414213322.GW19428@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>
On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 10:33:22PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> The problem that's being addressed here is that there's no way at the
> moment to know when the drivers on a different bus (namely the platform
> bus) have probed and are providing the clock and power domain resources
> necessary to be able to read these identifying values.
>
> I guess if you don't like a notifier, the other alternative is to
> setup a delayed workqueue and have the workqueue repeatedly attempt
> to register the devices until they all succeed. That's not
> particularly nice, because we'd be wasting CPU cycles running
> that workqueue for no reason until all the devices get registered.
I like that idea, it handles the issue of this crazy hardware where it
belongs, in that bus subsystem :)
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-14 21:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-13 9:35 [PATCH v7 0/2] AMBA: add complete support for power domains Marek Szyprowski
2016-04-13 9:35 ` [PATCH v7 1/2] drivers: base: add support for registering notifier about deferred probe Marek Szyprowski
2016-04-13 14:12 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2016-04-14 7:36 ` Marek Szyprowski
2016-04-14 8:40 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2016-04-14 21:17 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2016-04-14 21:33 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2016-04-14 21:51 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2016-04-13 9:36 ` [PATCH v7 2/2] drivers: amba: properly handle devices with power domains Marek Szyprowski
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