On 10 August 2015 at 12:25, Mark Brown [off-list ref] wrote:

On Sun, Aug 09, 2015 at 03:03:14PM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:

quoted

There was some recent thread about how the disabling of unused clocks
and regulators isn't really safe because after late_initcall_sync more
drivers can be registered from modules. Furthermore, there's async
device probes.

What recent thread and why would that be unsafe?

Sorry, I should have said instead that it's already unpredictable and
that from what I have seen during testing these series doesn't make it
any worst.

Regards,

Tomeu

Any driver using a
clock or regulator ought to be making sure that the clock or regulator
is enabled before it tries to use it.  The worst that should happen is
that something gets the power bounced during boot which isn't the end of
the world.