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Message-ID: <20090615144434.GD4094@sortiz.org> Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:44:36 +0200 From: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com> To: Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <mike@...pulab.co.il>, eric miao <eric.y.miao@...il.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] mfd/da903x: initialize PMIC core early On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 03:34:11PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 05:08:28PM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote: > > Samuel Ortiz wrote: > > > > Sure. Care to explain why this needs to be called earlier ? > > > We want to have da903x regulators available early during boot, and since they > > are subdevices of mfd/da903x they cannot be enabled until the da903x core is > > initialized. > > I just saw Liam Girdwood pull request with "regulator: Move regulator drivers to > > subsys_initcall()" commit and jumped in :) > > Any MFD core with regulators on it ought to be pulled forward to > subsys_initcall(). Doing this makes it easier to get a sensible > ordering during boot without having a song and dance in consumer > drivers waiting for the regulators that supply them to instantiate. Yep, I'm preparing a patch for that. Cheers, Samuel. -- Intel Open Source Technology Centre http://oss.intel.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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