netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] irqchip/renesas-irqc: Postpone driver initialization

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Message-ID: <216fe100-556b-7f83-39b0-4cf54c1fa35c@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 8 Nov 2016 11:42:21 -0800
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>,
        Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>
Cc:     Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>,
        Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@...il.com>,
        linux-renesas-soc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] irqchip/renesas-irqc: Postpone driver initialization

On 11/08/2016 11:35 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Currently the renesas-irqc driver uses postcore_initcall().
> 
> However, the new CPG/MSSR driver uses subsys_initcall(). Hence the
> IRQC's probe will be deferred, which causes the Micrel Ethernet PHY to
> not find its interrupt on R-Car Gen2 and RZ/G, as the of_mdio subsystem
> does not support deferred probe yet.

Is not that the more correct fix to implement though?
-- 
Florian