Re: [PATCH RFC PoC 1/2] earlydev: implement a new way to probe platform devices early

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Fri Apr 27 2018 - 11:13:40 EST


On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 5:29 PM, Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> +/*
> + * REVISIT: early_initcall may be still too late for some timers and critical
> + * clocks. We should probably have a separate section with callbacks that can
> + * be invoked at each architecture's discretion.
> + */
> +#define earlydev_platform_driver(_drv) \
> + static int _drv##_register(void) \
> + { \
> + earlydev_driver_register(&(_drv)); \
> + return 0; \
> + } \
> + early_initcall(_drv##_register)
> +
> +#endif /* __EARLYDEV_H__ */

No full review, just one comment: this would really need to fit into the
existing callbacks for clk, timer, earlycon etc that we use with OF_DECLARE.
A lot of code makes assumptions about the order in which they are
called, and the current early_platform infrastructure does the same
thing using its "earlyprintk" and "earlytimer" classes.

Arnd