Re: [PATCH] clk: probe common clock drivers earlier

From: Masahiro Yamada
Date: Wed Jul 20 2016 - 21:00:07 EST


2016-07-20 19:58 GMT+09:00 Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 6:57 AM, Masahiro Yamada
> <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 2016-07-16 11:11 GMT+09:00 Michael Turquette <mturquette@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>> Quoting Masahiro Yamada (2016-05-05 00:57:17)
>>>> Several SoCs implement platform drivers for clocks rather than
>>>> CLK_OF_DECLARE(). Clocks should come earlier because they are
>>>> prerequisites for many of other drivers. It will help to mitigate
>
> As are regulators, DMA engines, power domains, ..., but the actual ordering
> needed depends on the SoC.


Right.


The *mitigate* is a keyword in my git-log.

I am not saying this commit can completely suppress EPROBE_DEFER,
but moving "obj-y += clk/" up is
a right thing for *most* of SoCs.


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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada