linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] i2c: mux: Add i2c-arbitrator-cros-ec 'mux' driver

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Message-ID: <20130215174425.GF22283@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Date:	Fri, 15 Feb 2013 17:44:25 +0000
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To:	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>
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	Wolfram Sang <wolfram@...-dreams.de>,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@...omium.org>,
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	Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@...csson.com>,
	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dia.com>,
	Ben Dooks <ben.dooks@...ethink.co.uk>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] i2c: mux: Add i2c-arbitrator-cros-ec 'mux' driver

On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 10:38:29AM -0700, Stephen Warren wrote:

> Either way though, I believe that upstream, no driver should be relying
> on specific initcall levels in order to get dependencies/initialization
> ordering correct.

Right, in the past we did bodges like this but in the glorious new
present where deferred probing is available it shouldn't be needed any
more except for a few fun cases like cpufreq that are outside the device
model.

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