netdev - Re: [PATCH 00/14] ARM: davinci: step towards removing at24_platform

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Date:   Tue, 26 Jun 2018 09:44:19 +0200
From:   Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>
To:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc:     Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@...com>, Kevin Hilman <khilman@...nel.org>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@...com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@...aro.org>,
        Lukas Wunner <lukas@...ner.de>, Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
        Ivan Khoronzhuk <ivan.khoronzhuk@...aro.org>,
        David Lechner <david@...hnology.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-omap@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/14] ARM: davinci: step towards removing at24_platform_data

2018-06-25 20:02 GMT+02:00 Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>:
>> With my patch 1/14 you'll get -EPROBE_DEFER from nvmem_cell_get() if
>> the nvmem provider is not yet registered. Will that help in your case?
>
> I don't think so. My driver instantiates the AT24 device. So if i get
> -EPROBE_DEFER, i need to cleanup the probe, and return -EPROBDE_DEFER
> to the code. Which means i need to remove the AT24 device...
>
>        Andrew

Are you sure this is the correct approach? I understand that you want
to use something like board files for your machine? Wouldn't it be
better to register a platform device for at24, register a cell lookup
and then depend on that cell from your driver?

Would you mind describing your platform in detail a bit more?

Best regards,
Bartosz