Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] nvmem: rockchip-efuse: Change initcall to subsys

[Kevin Hilman]

Heiko Stuebner <heiko@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Am Donnerstag, 18. August 2016, 13:28:58 CEST schrieb Kevin Hilman:
>> Finlye Xiao <finley.xiao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> > From: Finley Xiao <finley.xiao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > 
>> > We will register a cpufreq notifier for adjusting opp's voltage, and it
>> > need to fetch cpu's leakage from efuse in the notifier_call. so the efuse
>> > driver should probe before cpufreq driver.
>> > 
>> > Signed-off-by: Finley Xiao <finley.xiao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> 
>> Why can't this be handled with deferred probling?  initcall ordering is
>> a can of worms.
>
> I think the issue is less between efuse and avs driver, but more between avs 
> driver and cpufreq. The avs driver aims to modify the opp table and thus wants 
> to do that / register the notifier before cpufreq starts.
>
> And as there is no direct connection between cpufreq and the avs driver, 
> making cpufreq defer probing is probably not really easy.

Thanks for the explanation.

Sounds like something that belongs in the changelog.

Kevin