linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] clk: Disable unused clocks after deferred probing is done

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Date:	Thu, 16 May 2013 14:55:46 +0200
From:	Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>
To:	Saravana Kannan <skannan@...eaurora.org>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>,
	Mike Turquette <mturquette@...aro.org>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
	linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org, Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] clk: Disable unused clocks after deferred probing
 is done

On 16 May 2013 06:34, Saravana Kannan <skannan@...eaurora.org> wrote:
> On 05/09/2013 11:35 AM, Saravana Kannan wrote:
>>
>> With deferred probing, late_initcall() is too soon to declare a clock as
>> unused. Wait for deferred probing to finish before declaring a clock as
>> unused. Since deferred probing is done in late_initcall(), do the unused
>> check to late_initcall_sync.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <skannan@...eaurora.org>
>> ---
>>   drivers/clk/clk.c |    2 +-
>>   1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/clk/clk.c b/drivers/clk/clk.c
>> index fe4055f..5ecb64c 100644
>> --- a/drivers/clk/clk.c
>> +++ b/drivers/clk/clk.c
>> @@ -534,7 +534,7 @@ static int clk_disable_unused(void)
>>
>>         return 0;
>>   }
>> -late_initcall(clk_disable_unused);
>> +late_initcall_sync(clk_disable_unused);

Without giving this too much thinking... Will boot time be affected
with this change?

Kind regards
Ulf Hansson

>>
>>   /***    helper functions   ***/
>
>
> Mike,
>
> Thoughts? Picking it up? Removing the existing auto-disable code (I think
> they are still useful)?
>
> -Saravana
>
>
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