linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 01/18] platform: delay OF device-driver matches until late

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Date:	Fri, 4 Sep 2015 07:46:24 +0200
From:	Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu.vizoso@...labora.com>
To:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Cc:	Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@...com>,
	Rob Herring <robherring2@...il.com>,
	"devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>,
	Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@....samsung.com>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
	Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 01/18] platform: delay OF device-driver matches until late_initcall

On 10 August 2015 at 12:25, Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 09, 2015 at 03:03:14PM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>
>> There was some recent thread about how the disabling of unused clocks
>> and regulators isn't really safe because after late_initcall_sync more
>> drivers can be registered from modules. Furthermore, there's async
>> device probes.
>
> What recent thread and why would that be unsafe?

Sorry, I should have said instead that it's already unpredictable and
that from what I have seen during testing these series doesn't make it
any worst.

Regards,

Tomeu

> Any driver using a
> clock or regulator ought to be making sure that the clock or regulator
> is enabled before it tries to use it.  The worst that should happen is
> that something gets the power bounced during boot which isn't the end of
> the world.
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