Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: mediatek: convert to arch_initcall

[Mark Brown]

On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 04:11:47PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Move pinctrl initialization earlier in boot so that real devices can find
> > their pctldev without probe deferring.
> (...)
> > -module_init(mtk_pinctrl_init);
> > +arch_initcall(mtk_pinctrl_init);

> So I see why you're doing this (because of wanting to avoid nasty boot
> probe deferrals, right?) and I'm going to apply it, because the work
> with probe ordering is still in the works, but I'd like some general
> ARM people to come in with opinions.

I really don't think we should be applying this sort of stuff unless
things are actively broken right now.  It's a bit of a rabbit hole we
could spend a long time going down tweaking things for different
systems in the same way that tweaking the link order can be and it masks
the underlying issues.

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