[PATCH v4 0/8] Device Tree support for the at91sam9261ek
From: Thomas Petazzoni <hidden>
Date: 2014-02-12 12:44:33
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Dear Jean-Jacques Hiblot, On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 13:36:08 +0100, Jean-Jacques Hiblot wrote:
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For dm9000 the issue is (again) related to an ordering problem: the Ethernet need an interrupt provided by the gpio driver. Unfortunately, the gpio driver initialization is called after the dm900 driver initialization.And -EPROBE_DEFER doesn't solve this problem?not really the problem happens before the driver is actually probed when the ressource for the platform driver are filled
Sorry, I don't have all the context. If I understand correctly what you mean, the GPIO driver is probed through the DT, but the DM9000 driver is probed in a legacy way from the board file, and you have the case where the DM9000 platform_device gets registered before the GPIOs are actually available? In this case, what about having the of_platform_populate() call *before* the platform_device_register() for your DM9000 ? Again, I don't have all the context, so I might very well be getting the situation incorrectly. Of course, ideally, the DM9000 driver should be probed using the DT, but I guess this needs the SMC DT binding that is still being discussed, if I followed correctly. Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com