Re: [PATCH 01/12] regulator: gpio-regulator: Demote GPIO Regulatordriver to start later

From: Mark Brown
Date: Mon Dec 10 2012 - 09:07:49 EST


On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 08:55:50AM +0000, Lee Jones wrote:

> The normal course of action would be to defer the MMCI driver too,
> but these IOS level-shifter regulators aren't present on all
> platforms, so deferring until one is found would be incorrect.

> So the best solution is to demote the GPIO Regulator driver, so
> it starts later than the TC35892 GPIO controller, which is also
> configured to start at subsys_initcall() time, but before deferred
> probing time, which starts at late_initcall(), after many of the
> drivers requiring these regulators would have already started.

This really isn't a good solution, especially not for a system that's DT
based - on a DT system we can tell if there should be a GPIO present so
we should be able to defer only when there's something that might
provide the GPIO later on.
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