linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 7/7] ARM: brcmstb: dts: add a reference DTS for Broadcom 7445

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Date:	Thu, 16 Jan 2014 13:47:32 +0000
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	Marc C <marc.ceeeee@...il.com>,
	Michal Simek <michal.simek@...inx.com>,
	David Brown <davidb@...eaurora.org>,
	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>,
	Christian Daudt <bcm@...thebug.org>,
	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
	Matt Porter <matt.porter@...aro.org>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 7/7] ARM: brcmstb: dts: add a reference DTS for
 Broadcom 7445

On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 12:19:00PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> 1. Other platforms also require the syscon driver to be active before
> the regular device driver probing starts. Michal Simek has the same
> issue in the zynq clock driver that you have for SMP initialization.
> We have talked about this with Mark Brown already, and I think we will
> find a solution for this in the end, but it's not as straightforward
> as I first hoped. We can probably use help in this area.

I thought the solution with deferring registration of the resource for
dev_get_regmap() until a proper device materialised seemed simple and
enough, did you folks run into any problems with that?  I had assumed a
patch was likely to materialise so wasn't worrying about it myself.

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