linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] cpufreq: mediatek: Add MT8173 cpufreq driver

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Message-ID: <20150709051704.GL1805@linux>
Date:	Thu, 9 Jul 2015 10:47:04 +0530
From:	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
To:	Pi-Cheng Chen <pi-cheng.chen@...aro.org>
Cc:	Michael Turquette <mturquette@...libre.com>,
	Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	"devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-pm@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linaro Kernel Mailman List <linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org>,
	linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] cpufreq: mediatek: Add MT8173 cpufreq driver

On 09-07-15, 09:55, Pi-Cheng Chen wrote:
> That's what I did in previous version. But the reason I use the device-
> driver model is to handle the defer probing issue. Since there's no
> arch/arm64/mach-mediatek/ directory to hold the device registration
> code anymore, no device tree way to match cpufreq driver
> (please correct me if there's any), and initcall seems not handle
> defer probing either, therefore I put both device and driver
> registration in this function. I know it's crappy. :(
> Do you have any suggestion to do it right and handle defer probing
> properly?

Sounds reasonable. Just add proper comment in code to explain that.

-- 
viresh
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