Re: [PATCH 1/6] i2c: bcm-kona: register with subsys_initcall

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Matt Porter <hidden>
Date
2014-02-05 16:19:39
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Reply to
Alan Stern, 2014-02-05
On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 10:30:29AM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
On Wed, 5 Feb 2014, Matt Porter wrote:
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On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 10:08:18AM +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote:
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On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 07:19:07AM -0500, Matt Porter wrote:
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Voltage regulators are needed very early due to deferred probe
being incompatible with built-in USB gadget drivers.
What does it need to fix those instead?
[added Alan/Felipe for more insight]

Discussion on that topic came about from this submission:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-usb/msg94217.html

End of it is:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-usb/msg94731.html

We can either add to the many drivers that already do subsys_initcall()
for similar reasons...or I can drop this from the series and add gadget
probe ordering to my TODO list.

In short, it can't be a late_initcall() hack like the original post and
really could be solved by converting to a real bus (and letting
deferred probe do its job)..but Alan voiced concerns about that.
Don't worry too much about what I said.  If adding a "gadget" bus will 
solve the problem in an appropriate way, and if nobody else objects 
(particularly Felipe, who is on vacation now), then go for it.
Ok, I'll take a look at what can be done and restart the conversation
when Felipe returns.

Wolfram: given this, as I mentioned, I'll simply drop this patch from
the series and work around it for now. This will probably make Lee and
Mark happy to not see subsys_initcall() in the MFD/regulator drivers as
well.

-Matt
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