linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 06/14] mfd: Initialise the DB8500 PRCMU driver at core

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Date:	Mon, 11 Jun 2012 23:01:46 +0200
From:	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:	Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>, grant.likely@...retlab.ca
Cc:	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linus.walleij@...ricsson.com, arnd@...db.de,
	Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/14] mfd: Initialise the DB8500 PRCMU driver at
 core_initcall time

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org> wrote:

> Now the AB8500 has its own IRQ domain

But that does not appear until patch 8 in this series? Are the patches in
the wrong order? Or does this need rewording?

> it needs to be initialised earlier
> in the boot sequence. As the AB8500 relies on the DB8500 PRCMU we need to
> reflect this change for the PRCMU driver too.

Hm what shall we do when we run out of initlevels? I think this was the
kind of thing that deferred probe should solve. Usually changing this kind
of thing has side effects so I'm a bit hesitant.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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